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capital sin

NOUN

deadly sin

Synonyms

WEAK

carnal sin grave sin mortal sin unpardonable sin unutterable sin

Example Sentences

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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

Therefore it seems that either Gregory or Isidore has wrongly assigned sloth as a capital sin together with its daughters.

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

Objection 1: It would seem that hatred is a capital sin.

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

But a too villainous curiosity was not the Abb�'s capital sin.

From A Book of Scoundrels by Whibley, Charles