Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not sinning; committing no sin; impeccable; untainted with sin: as, unsinning obedience.

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  • verb Present participle of unsin.

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Examples

  • But it is said that this will not relieve; for if his obedience be so imputed unto us, as that we are accounted by God in judgment to have done what Christ did, it is all one upon the matter, and we are as much justified by the law as if we had in our own proper persons performed an unsinning obedience unto it.

    The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

  • It would have been harder work, reflected the girl in the grass, for Amelia to have been unsinning and gentle, if she had been born.

    Four Girls and a Compact Annie Hamilton Donnell

  • Could the idea of the inactive and unsinning Soul have arisen from observation of the moral principle of Conscience which discriminates between right and wrong, and acts, therefore, as an impartial judge, or watches everything like an uninterested spectator?

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • It would have been harder work, reflected the girl in the grass, for Amelia to have been unsinning and gentle, if she had been born.

    Four Girls and a Compact Annie Hamilton Donnell

  • It would have been harder work, reflected the girl in the grass, for Amelia to have been unsinning and gentle, if she had been born.

    Four Girls and a Compact Annie Hamilton Donnell

  • Which, in the event of gentle, unsinning Amelia ever having been born, might or might not have been true.

    Four Girls and a Compact Annie Hamilton Donnell

  • Which, in the event of gentle, unsinning Amelia ever having been born, might or might not have been true.

    Four Girls and a Compact Annie Hamilton Donnell

  • Which, in the event of gentle, unsinning Amelia ever having been born, might or might not have been true.

    Four Girls and a Compact Annie Hamilton Donnell

  • If by the covenant of works you mean that of unsinning obedience made with Adam before the fall; no man but Adam was ever under that covenant -- for it was abolished before Cain was born.

    The Doctrine & Discipline of the African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Church, of the United States of America, or Elsewhere. U.S. 1871

  • If we could see ourselves with God's eye, we should doubtless discover sinfulness lying beneath our most joyful moments of unsinning conduct, and the stain of our old and fallen nature so discoloring our whitest actions as to convince us that we are not yet faultless in his presence.

    The Ministry of the Spirit 1865

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