Synonyms for capital sin

Grammar : Noun

Définition of capital sin

noun deadly sin

Example sentences :

He should know better than to succumb to the capital sin of avarice.
Extract from : « The Syndic » by C.M. Kornbluth

But a too villainous curiosity was not the Abb's capital sin.
Extract from : « A Book of Scoundrels » by Charles Whibley

Indeed, the capital sin of Dublin Castle is that it is a bureaucracy which has seized upon the estate of the people.
Extract from : « The Open Secret of Ireland » by T. M. Kettle

Persecution had failed to drive Puritan ministers or their followers into what they deemed the capital sin of schism.
Extract from : « The Beginners of a Nation » by Edward Eggleston.

Above all, they consider the "brogue" to be a capital sin—talem devita.
Extract from : « The Catholic World. Volume II; Numbers 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. » by E. Rameur

Thinking about religion in those days was looked upon in official Christendom as a capital sin.
Extract from : « History of the Jews, Vol. III (of 6) » by Heinrich Graetz

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