The English language amazes me a little more everyday, but lately something I have realized has been haunting me. This rich and wonderful language apparently lacks the word that is the antonym of "sin." Now you might think, well we have the word "deed," but in the dictionary deed means "something that is done, performed, or accomplished; an act." So we say "good deed," but it is so very rare that we use an adjectival phrase instead of a noun.
We have a word for "a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, designed in 1839; has an open seat for the driver in front of the closed cabin for two or four passengers." Brougham. Yes, brougham. I can't help but think this extremely specific word exists, but the simple, and long speculated word for a good deed doesn't. Perhaps, the person who coined the word sin, was having a cynical day, and wasn't in a good mood. Or, maybe he believed in the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes that all men were evil, and only capable of wrongdoing.
Who knows, maybe someday in the future we will be using a new word I coined...
We have a word for "a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, designed in 1839; has an open seat for the driver in front of the closed cabin for two or four passengers." Brougham. Yes, brougham. I can't help but think this extremely specific word exists, but the simple, and long speculated word for a good deed doesn't. Perhaps, the person who coined the word sin, was having a cynical day, and wasn't in a good mood. Or, maybe he believed in the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes that all men were evil, and only capable of wrongdoing.
Who knows, maybe someday in the future we will be using a new word I coined...