Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity, a man who (according to a former practice in England) for a small gratuity ate a piece of bread laid on the chest of a dead person, whereby he was supposed to have taken the sins of the dead person upon himself, an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will, verb_ commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake, commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law, abbreviation_ sine