| 单词 | capital vice |
| 释义 | > as lemmascapital vice capital vice n. = capital sin n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > sin > kinds of sin > [noun] > mortal head sinOE capital vicec1522 capital sin1550 scapea1592 cardinal sin1603 c1522Capitall vyces [see sense A. 6a]. 1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. ix. 185 Their great capital God Jupiter, guilty of almost all the capital vices. 1783 S. Gunning Coombe Wood I. v. 94 In such a heart, if I never perceived a capital vice, I sacredly declare I never yet discovered one virtue. 1882 Catholic World May 217 His capital vice of pride was one which men commonly are prone to pardon easily in a great man. 1986 S. Soriano & I. Soriano in C. Galerstein Women Writers of Spain 224 The author analyzes the capital vice of avarice, the crazed passion for money. 2004 J. Barad in S. Best & A. J. Nocella Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? 166 For Aquinas, while it is true that capital vices are never good considered in themselves, they are not necessarily evil, since they may be source of action in virtue of good. < as lemmas |
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