inordinateness
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Consequently, from their very nature, they can have no inordinateness in respect of the means, unless at the same time they have an inordinateness in respect of the end, and this is a mortal sin.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
Therefore inordinateness in man was through the desire of knowledge, which pertains to curiosity.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
The inordinateness of our self-love makes speech about ourselves like the putting of the lighted torch to the dried wood which has been laid in order for the burning.
From Talks on Talking by Grenville Kleiser
A. But such is often the corrupt inordinateness of greatness, that it only carries them so much beyond other men, but not so much nearer to God.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
And because the integrity of the primitive state is incompatible with any inordinateness whatever, the result is that the first man could not sin venially, before committing a mortal sin.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
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