capital sin

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.

"And that, to me, is a capital sin."

I’ve always thought that, because that is a capital sin.

“Killing of unborn children is a capital sin in America. Right behind it are things like gay marriage. I am not homophobic or hateful, I have dozens of friends who are gay. This church has maintained fidelity to the teachings of Scripture and that is why God has blessed it.”

How kindly partial to her Penitent in finding him, on examining his conscience, guilty of only one capital sin and to call that by the gentle name of Foible!