Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sick or suffering because of sin.
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Examples
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There have been more nights than I want to admit when I have sat down to my laptop, sin-sick and sorrow-worn (or just sorrow-worn for you agnostics/atheists) and someone will have posted a comment that made me laugh, made me think, and/or made me get on over myself.
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There have been more nights than I want to admit when I have sat down to my laptop, sin-sick and sorrow-worn (or just sorrow-worn for you agnostics/atheists) and someone will have posted a comment that made me laugh, made me think, and/or made me get on over myself.
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I slipped out of the pew as the congregation was wrapping up the song: “There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole; there is a balm in Gilead to heal the sin-sick soul.”
The Dadlands Saloon Jonathan Twingley 2009
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Our hours of Adoration will be special hours of reparation for sins, and intercession for the needs of the whole world, exposing the sin-sick and suffering humanity to the healing, sustaining and transforming rays of Jesus, radiating from the Eucharist.
" The Greatest Gift of Love " Catholic Mom of 10 2009
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I slipped out of the pew as the congregation was wrapping up the song: “There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole; there is a balm in Gilead to heal the sin-sick soul.”
The Dadlands Saloon Jonathan Twingley 2009
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I am so extremely spiritual that I'm never going to wear a coat and tie like you poor, sin-sick corporate slaves again.
Shirts Speak, Part II PeaceBang 2006
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I am so extremely spiritual that I'm never going to wear a coat and tie like you poor, sin-sick corporate slaves again.
Archive 2006-07-02 PeaceBang 2006
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They [the waters of the sanctuary] bring Christ along with them, the great physician of souls, who alone is able to cure a sin-sick soul.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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The great Physician of his church knows how to give his sin-sick people potions that shall work by degrees, and at such an appointed season take away all their iniquity: then they can no longer be detained in trouble.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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His blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls.
Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers 1616-1683 1967
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