English > mortal sin: 1 sense > noun 1, act| Meaning | An unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace. |
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| Example | "theologians list seven mortal sins" |
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| Synonym | deadly sin |
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| Narrower | avarice, greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia | reprehensible acquisitiveness |
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| envy, invidia | spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins) |
| gluttony, overeating, gula | eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) |
| lust, luxuria | self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins) |
| pride, superbia | Unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins) |
| sloth, laziness, acedia | apathy / apathy and inactivity / inactivity in the practice of virtue / virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) |
| wrath, anger, ire, ira | Belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins) |
| Broader | sin, sinning | An act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will |
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| Opposite | venial sin | A pardonable sin regarded as entailing only a partial loss of grace |
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| Spanish | pecado capital, pecado mortal |
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| Catalan | pecat capital, pecat mortal |
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