Noun: sinner
| Singular | sinner |
| Plural | sinners |
Sample Sentences
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Some Christians believe the Bible tells us that homosexuals are sinners. The current trend of increased acceptance of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community is distressing to these Christians who sincerely want to follow the Bible. [2016, Janet Edmonds, The Bible Doesn’t Say That Homosexuality is a Sin:]
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Are you a sinner or a saint?
Nouns inflected like sinner
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English synnere, equivalent to sin + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Säänder (“sinner”), West Frisian sûnder (“sinner”), Dutch zondaar (“sinner”), German Low German Sünder, Sünner (“sinner”), German Sünder (“sinner”), Danish synder (“sinner”), Swedish syndare (“sinner”), Icelandic syndari (“sinner”). See: Middle English Nouns '
synnere', Dutch Nouns '
zondaar', German Nouns '
Sünder', Danish Nouns '
synder', Swedish Nouns '
syndare', Icelandic Nouns '
syndari'.