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capital sin
noun as in deadly sin
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He should know better than to succumb to the capital sin of avarice.
From Project Gutenberg
Thinking about religion in those days was looked upon in official Christendom as a capital sin.
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Above all, they consider the "brogue" to be a capital sin—talem devita.
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Persecution had failed to drive Puritan ministers or their followers into what they deemed the capital sin of schism.
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But a too villainous curiosity was not the Abb's capital sin.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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