sinnership
(ˈsɪnəʃɪp)
[f. sinner n. + -ship.]
The condition of being a sinner.
| c 1750 J. Nelson Jrnl. (1836) 66 Many..told me to my face that I never knew the gospel liberty, nor what it was to enjoy the poor sinnership. 1818 Bentham Church-of-Englandism 175 Exists there any scale..by which the sinnership and the miserableness of the Archbishop can be measured? 1868 Browning Ring & Bk. iii. 114 Which the more Tends to the reconciling us, no saints To sinnership. 1887 ― Parleyings, F. Furini xi, Show saintliness that's simply innocent Of guessing sinnership exists to cure All in good time! |