inordinateness

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Now sometimes this inordinateness of fear is confined to the sensitive appetites, without the accession of the rational appetite's consent: and then it cannot be a mortal, but only a venial sin.

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

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 Coleridge, Henry Nelson

It remains therefore that the first inordinateness of the human appetite resulted from his coveting inordinately some spiritual good.

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

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 Kleiser, Grenville

I answer that, Many movements may concur towards one sin, and the character of sin attaches to that one in which inordinateness is first found.

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