DEADLY SIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deadly sin mean? 

• DEADLY SIN (noun)
  The noun DEADLY SIN has 1 sense:

1. an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace

  Familiarity information: DEADLY SIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEADLY SIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

deadly sin; mortal sin

Context example:

theologians list seven mortal sins

Hypernyms ("deadly sin" is a kind of...):

sin; sinning (an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deadly sin"):

pride; superbia (unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins))

envy; invidia (spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins))

avarice; avaritia; covetousness; greed; rapacity (reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins))

acedia; laziness; sloth (apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins))

anger; ira; ire; wrath (belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins))

gluttony; gula; overeating (eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins))

lust; luxuria (self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins))

 Context examples 

So defiling was their presence that a true Cistercian might not raise his eyes to their face or touch their finger-tips under ban of church and fear of deadly sin.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)