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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

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

From A Book of Scoundrels by Whibley, Charles

Therefore it seems that hatred should be reckoned a capital sin.

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

Therefore sloth is not rightly accounted a capital sin.

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