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Synonyms for original sin


Grammar : Noun



Définition of original sin

  • noun innate corruption
Example sentences :
  • The doctrine of original sin must once have had a meaning and a purpose.
  • Extract from : « What Is and What Might Be » by Edmond Holmes
  • We need not have recourse to the doctrine of original sin in order to account for these.
  • Extract from : « What Is and What Might Be » by Edmond Holmes
  • It has all the paradox of original sin in the service of aboriginal faith.
  • Extract from : « What I Saw in America » by G. K. Chesterton
  • Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin.
  • Extract from : « Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 » by Various
  • They won't think of it as simian-ness; they call it original sin.
  • Extract from : « This Simian World » by Clarence Day
  • Generally, however, it is original sin that is advanced as the cause of suffering.
  • Extract from : « Reincarnation » by Th. Pascal
  • His sermons used to arouse all the original sin in me, when I had to listen to them.
  • Extract from : « A Modern Chronicle, Complete » by Winston Churchill
  • Ever since then they have been purging themselves of their original sin.
  • Extract from : « Castes and Tribes of Southern India » by Edgar Thurston
  • Paul's theory of original sin was to some extent idiosyncratic.
  • Extract from : « Preface to Androcles and the Lion » by George Bernard Shaw
  • This is true, but before the original sin there may have been neither pain nor submission.
  • Extract from : « Instigations » by Ezra Pound

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