deadly sin
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English
Noun
deadly sin (plural deadly sins)
- Any of the seven deadly sins: pride (or vanity, vainglory), envy, gluttony, greed (or avarice), lust, sloth (or acedia), and wrath (or anger).
- Synonym: cardinal sin
- Antonym: capital virtue
- Coordinate terms: venial sin, mortal sin
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- There are deadly sins from which God's people may recover. A man may even communicate unworthily, and yet, so be it he sin not against the Holy Ghost, he may find forgiveness.
Translations
any of the seven deadly sins
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See also
- mortal sin (strictly a different concept, though often used interchangeably)