Found 2 items, similar to original sin.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: original sin original sin n : a sin inherited by all descendants of Adam; “Adam and Even committed the original sin when they ate the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden” [ant: actual sin]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Original sin Sin \Sin\, n. [OE. sinne, AS. synn, syn; akin to D. zonde, OS. sundia, OHG. sunta, G. s["u]nde, Icel., Dan. & Sw. synd, L. sons, sontis, guilty, perhaps originally from the p. pr. of the verb signifying, to be, and meaning, the one who it is. Cf. Authentic, Sooth.] 1. Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission. [1913 Webster] Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. --John viii. 34. [1913 Webster] Sin is the transgression of the law. --1 John iii. 4. [1913 Webster] I think 't no sin. To cozen him that would unjustly win. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Enthralled By sin to foul, exorbitant desires. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners. [1913 Webster] I grant that poetry's a crying sin. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 3. A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin. [1913 Webster] He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin. --2 Cor. v. 21. [1913 Webster] 4. An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person. [R.] [1913 Webster] Thy ambition, Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land Of noble Buckingham. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Note: Sin is used in the formation of some compound words of obvious signification; as, sin-born; sin-bred, sin-oppressed, sin-polluted, and the like. [1913 Webster] Actual sin, Canonical sins, Original sin, Venial sin. See under Actual, Canonical, etc. Deadly sins, or Mortal sins (R. C. Ch.), willful and deliberate transgressions, which take away divine grace; -- in distinction from vental sins. The seven deadly sins are pride, covetousness, lust, wrath, gluttony, envy, and sloth. Sin eater, a man who (according to a former practice in England) for a small gratuity ate a piece of bread laid on the chest of a dead person, whereby he was supposed to have taken the sins of the dead person upon himself. Sin offering, a sacrifice for sin; something offered as an expiation for sin. [1913 Webster] Syn: Iniquity; wickedness; wrong. See Crime. [1913 Webster] Original \O*rig"i*nal\, a. [F. original, L. originalis.] [1913 Webster] 1. Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process. [1913 Webster] His form had yet not lost All her original brightness. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture. [1913 Webster] 3. Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius. [1913 Webster] 4. Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter. [1913 Webster] Original sin (Theol.), the first sin of Adam, as related to its consequences to his descendants of the human race; -- called also total depravity. See Calvinism. [1913 Webster]