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
Now, if you take away the head, the other members of the body will perish; so if you destroy the capital sin, the other sins that follow it will disappear also.
From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Kinkead, Thomas L.
In the same way our capital sin is the root, and as long as we leave it in our souls other sins will grow out of it.
From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Kinkead, Thomas L.
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
