ˈsin-sick, a.
[sin n. 6.]
Sick with sin.
| 1609 Daniel Civ. Wars iv. xlvi, Is there no meanes, but that a sin-sicke Land Must be let bloud with such a boysterous hand? a 1618 Sylvester Paradox agst. Libertie 1068 Wks. (Grosart) II. 64 The poysony humour fell Where⁓with my sin-sick heart already 'gan to swell. 1760–72 H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 2 The manifold distempers of your sin-sick soul. 1779 Cowper Olney Hymns lix, O God, whose favourable eye The sin-sick soul revives. 1845 G. Murray Islaford 46 The sin-sick heart reposed in hope and prayer. |
Hence ˈsin-sickness. rare—1.
| 1633 Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 161 Commonly good men are best at last, even when they are dying; for they seldome dye of a sinne-sicknesse. |