deadly sin

English

Noun

deadly sin (plural deadly sins)

1. Any of the seven deadly sins: pride (or vanity, vainglory), envy, gluttony, greed (or avarice), lust, sloth (or acedia), and wrath (or anger).

   Synonym: cardinal sin

   Antonym: capital virtue

   Coordinate terms: venial sin, mortal sin

   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     There are deadly sins from which God's people may recover. A man may even communicate unworthily, and yet, so be it he sin not against the Holy Ghost, he may find forgiveness.

Translations

any of the seven deadly sins

• Breton: pennbec'hed (br) m
• Catalan: pecat capital m
• Czech: smrtelný hřích m
• Danish: dødssynd c
• Dutch: hoofdzonde (nl) f
• Esperanto: morta peko
• Finnish: kuolemansynti (fi)
• French: péché capital (fr)
• Galician: pecado mortal (gl) m
• German: Hauptsünde f
• Greek: θανάσιμο αμάρτημα n (thanásimo amártima)
• Hungarian: főbűn (hu)
• Irish: peaca marfach m
• Italian: vizio capitale m, peccato capitale m
• Latin: peccatum mortiferum
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dødssynd (no)

  Nynorsk: dødssynd f

• Old English: hēafodsynn f
• Polish: grzech śmiertelny m
• Portuguese: pecado capital m
• Romanian: păcat capital (ro) n
• Russian: сме́ртный грех (ru) m (smértnyj grex)
• Scottish Gaelic: peacadh-bàis m
• Serbo-Croatian: smrtni grijeh m
• Spanish: pecado capital m
• Swedish: dödssynd (sv) c

See also

• mortal sin (strictly a different concept, though often used interchangeably)