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mortal sin

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mortal sin

In Roman Catholicism, those sins that result in damnation unless confessed and forgiven. They are contrasted with venial sins by their seriousness.

Whereas venial sins can be confessed privately to God, mortal sins must be confessed to a priest.



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She would have thought it a mortal sin to make a single gesture, or give a single glance, or say a single word which would reveal to others her real opinion of the imbecile Baudoyer.
Bureaucracy by de Balzac, Honore View in context
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