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mortal sin
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Noun mortal sin has 1 sense
- mortal sin(n = noun.act) deadly sin - an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace; "theologians list seven mortal sins" is a kind of sin, sinning
has particulars: pride, superbia, envy, invidia, avarice, avaritia, covetousness, greed, rapacity, acedia, laziness, sloth, anger, ira, ire, wrath, gluttony, gula, overeating, lust, luxuria
Antonym: venial sin
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mortal sin
Guilt
N guilt, guiltiness, culpability, criminality, criminousness, deviation from rectitude, sinfulness, misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed, malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression, dereliction, delinquency, indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas, peccadillo, flaw, blot, omission, failing, failure, break, bad break!, capital crime, delictum, offense, trespass, misdemeanor, misfeasance, misprision, malefaction, malfeasance, malversation, crime, felony, enormity, atrocity, outrage, deadly sin, mortal sin, deed without a name, corpus delicti, guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable, in fault, at fault, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable, weighed in the balance and found wanting, exceptionable, in flagrante delicto, red-handed, in the very act, with one's hand in the cookie jar, cui prodest scelus in fecit, culpam paena premit comes, O would the deed were good!, responsibility prevents crimes se judice nemo noce, so many laws argues so many sins.
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