capital sin

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In its capricious flows and floods, the river sometimes wandered far from anything like a deep-cut bed, and — its capital sin — chewed up valuable property and land.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2023

"Why," he asked in one sermon, "should we attribute to God the capital sin of Anger?"

From Time Magazine Archive

Sloth, 269; spiritual, 1064, capital sin, 1320 sqq.; definition, 1320; sinfulness, 1321; qualities of sin, 1322; sins that spring from sloth, 1324; conquest of sloth, 1325; prohibition against, 1552.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome

Mr. Miles Malleson shouldn't let his sense of character and his undoubted talent for business lead him into that capital sin of taking more than his share of the stage.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

Therefore it seems that hatred should be reckoned a capital sin.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint