sinfulness
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Along the way, Anaia and Racine contend with evergreen notions of morality and sinfulness.
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
Augustine sees this conflict as one between two rival wills, one that wills the good and one that desires sinfulness.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
That’s David Brooks’s point: We can’t truly cross the divide unless there’s a societywide and soul-deep acceptance of the sinfulness that has caused and perpetuated that divide.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2019
But that act in the distant past does not condemn us inescapably to sinfulness.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 12, 2017
A few have professed conversion, and have made a general acknowledgment of sinfulness; but they did not like to talk about their divinations; they called them “foolishness.”
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau