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A saint with better stories and worse decisions, still in progress.

means Someone who has done wrong — morally, or in religious terms, someone who has broken divine law.

from Traces back through Old English 'synn' to a Germanic root, likely connected to a Latin-adjacent idea of 'being guilty' or 'it is true' (as in owning up to an offense). Some scholars link it to the same ancient root as 'sooth' (truth), the notion being that a sin is a truth laid bare — the guilt that is undeniably yours. The religious weight piled on later, through centuries of sermons, but the word itself has always carried that plain, unglamorous core: not a monster, just someone who did the thing they weren't supposed to do.

origin
from archery term meaning to miss the mark
theology
everyone qualifies, membership is not optional
pop culture
tennis player Jannik Sinner did not choose this surname
irony
confessing one makes you briefly less of one
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