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Literature | Seven Deadly Sins (The). Pride, Wrath, Envy, Lust, Gluttony, Avarice, and Sloth. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Seven deadly sins, also known as the "capital vices", were enumerated in their present form by Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century. The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines them as "capital sins which Christian experience has distinguished, following St. John Cassian and St. Gregory the Great."
The seven deadly sins are:
The 4th century Egyptian monk Evagrius Ponticus defined eight deadly sins, which were later reduced to seven by merging pride and vainglory. Prior to the current heptad being defined by Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century, accidie, often translated as sadness or listlessness, was used instead of sloth.
In the official Catechism of the Catholic Church, consisting of 2,865 numbered sections published in 1994 by order of Pope John Paul II, the seven deadly sins are dealt with in only one paragraph. The principal codification of moral transgression for Christians continues to be the Ten Commandments.
Contrast with the Four Cardinal Virtues and Three Theological Virtues.
The movie Se7en is about a serial killer obsessed with the seven deadly sins. The seven deadly sins were also occasionally referenced in the Shazam/Captain Marvel comic-book franchise by seven statues displayed in the hero's secret headquarters. There is also a board game named after the seven deadly sins, see Seven Deadly Sins board game.
The seven deadly sins in popular culture
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Seven deadly sins."
Synonym: SEVEN DEADLY SINSSynonym: Deadly sins. (additional references) |
Crosswords: SEVEN DEADLY SINS |
| Specialty definitions using "SEVEN DEADLY SINS": Lucifera ♦ Seven Virtues. (references) |
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Screenplays | There was a time when I used to get lots of ideas I thought up the Seven Deadly Sins in one afternoon. (Bedazzled; writing credit: Peter Cook; Dudley Moore) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971) Seven Deadly Sins (1966) The Seven Deadly Sins (1917) Get Serious: Seven Deadly Sins (1995) Seven Deadly Sins (1993) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-e-i-l-n-n-s-s-s-v-y" | |
-3 letters: deadlinesses, venialnesses. | |
-4 letters: aliennesses, alivenesses, naivenesses. | |
-5 letters: avidnesses, deadliness, deadnesses, evilnesses, idlenesses, leadenness, leannesses, livenesses, vainnesses, venialness, vilenesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 45 56 45 4E 44 45 41 44 4C 59 53 49 4E 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000101 01010110 01000101 01001110 00100000 01000100 01000101 01000001 01000100 01001100 01011001 00100000 01010011 01001001 01001110 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S E V E N   D E A D L Y   S I N S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0045 0056 0045 004E 0044 0045 0041 0044 004C 0059 0053 0049 004E 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53395639482383935384659253434853 |
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