单词 | material sin |
释义 | > as lemmasmaterial sin material sin n. Theology a wrong action without regard to the evil intention that is necessary to constitute it a sin in the full sense of the word: see sense A. 4b. ΚΠ 1837 L. Beecher Views in Theol. 231 We have often been much perplexed in the attempt to understand what is meant by certain men, when they declaim against physical depravity, material sin, [etc.]. 1906 Amer. Hist. Rev. 11 257 When he said that God sometimes wished sin, he meant material sin. 1952 R. A. Knox Hidden Stream xviii. 165 If you wake up in the night and your watch says five minutes to twelve and you eat a slice of cake and go to Communion next morning and then find that your watch was really an hour slow, that is a material sin, because the Church tells you to fast from midnight. < as lemmas |
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