sinnable

comparative more sinnable · superlative most sinnable

1. obsoleteAble to sin.

   I represented to my father that I was very sinable [sic], that I had done wrong in espousing a cause so repugnant to his feelings, and contrary to my own opinion also.

   No year, circa 1835, Stephen Jarvis, An American's Experience in the British Army, manuscript reprinted in The Journal of American History 1, no. 3 (1907), page 443

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   He can charge the Angel themselves (who may be the Heavens in the fore-mentioned place) with folly, Job 4. 18. because though they never sinned, yet they are sinnable; 'tis possible they might sin, as some of their order have done, if not kept from it by confirming grace.

   1669, William Gurnall, The Christian in Compleat Armour, Or, A Treatise of the Saints War Against the Devil, 5th edition, Ralph Smith, page 291

   All the elements of sin are found in the narrative :—1, innocence ; 2, a known law accompanied with a clear prohibition ; 3, a sinnable nature ; 4, an object desirable to that nature ; 5, the activity of the temptation under a veiled and so not repulsive form ; 6, yielding to the seduction ; 7, conscious guilt ; 8, fear and flight ; 9, detection ; 10, exposure and condemnation.

   1864, Albert Réville, A Manual of Religious Instruction (translated from the French original, Manuel d'Instruction Religieuse, 1863; translator unknown), Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., page 204