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English
Etymology
From sin + ridden.
Adjective
sin-ridden (comparative more sin-ridden, superlative most sin-ridden)
- Dominated or plagued by sin.
1907, Robert W. Service, “The Law of the Yukon”, in Songs of a Sourdough, Toronto: William Briggs, page 8:In the camp at the bend of the river, with its dozen saloons aglare,
Its gambling dens ariot, its gramophones all ablare;
Crimped with the crimes of a city, sin-ridden and bridled with lies,
In the hush of my mountained vastness, in the flush of my midnight skies.
1953, K. J. Spalding, chapter 4, in The Philosophy of Shakespeare, Oxford: George Ronald, page 171:The dramatist tunes his plays to suit his moods. If in his tragic mood Shakespeare had staged a sin-ridden world, in his new mood he was rather to stage a world in which sin looked like an intruder.
1962, Sara Lidman, chapter 40, in Elspeth Harley Schubert, transl., The Rain Bird, New York: George Braziller, page 202:There was something else, too, connected with Jonas and the cow, which made Manda refuse to have anything to do with the animal. She would not drink the milk of that “sin-ridden creature,” she would say when she went round the farms, begging for a sip of Christian cow’s milk.