MORTAL SIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mortal sin mean? 

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

1. an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MORTAL 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 ("mortal 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 "mortal 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))

Antonym:

venial sin (a pardonable sin regarded as entailing only a partial loss of grace)

 Context examples 

A vow to the saints, cried Alleyne, is indeed not to be set aside; but this is a devil's vow, and, simple clerk as I am, I am yet the mouthpiece of the true church when I say that it were mortal sin to fight on such a quarrel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)