original sin
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.31 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Adam's disobedience to God, beginning with his eating of the forbidden fruit, often depicted as an apple.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The state of sinfulness, present in each human from birth, which is a result of Adam's disobedience.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "I vvas baptized in thy Cordiall vvater, againſt Original ſinne, and I haue drunke of thy Cordiall Blood, for my recouerie, from actuall, and habituall ſinne, in the other Sacrament."
- "You have to give director Colm McCarthy, a Scottish TV veteran making his feature film debut, and writer Mike Carey, adapting his own novel, credit for attempting the seemingly impossible task of doing something new with the zombie subgenre. And by blending it with the common YA trope of a young female protagonist who leads the world into a new revolutionary era, they almost get there—largely thanks to newcomer Nanua, who presents her character’s grappling with complex themes of identity and original sin with a childlike guilelessness."
- "The dim-wits hardly realize that they come pretty close to accusing God of advocating ritual murder, when they use the Biblical story to prove the “original sin” of the Jews."
Etymology
Calque of Latin peccātum orīgināle, a phrase used by 4th-century Berber theologian and saint Augustine of Hippo in his interpretations of the Bible.