Usually means: Inherited sin from Adam, Eve.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. original sin: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. original sin: Merriam-Webster
  3. original sin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. original sin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. original sin: Collins English Dictionary
  6. original sin: Vocabulary.com
  7. original sin: Wordnik
  8. original sin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. original sin: Wiktionary
  10. original sin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. original sin: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. original sin: Dictionary.com
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  14. original sin: Rhymezone
  15. Original Sin: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. original sin: FreeDictionary.org
  17. original sin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. original sin: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Original sin: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. original sin: Encyclopedia

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. original sin: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (original sin)

noun:  (Christianity) Adam's disobedience to God.
noun:  (Christianity) The state of sinfulness, present in each human from birth, which is a result of Adam's disobedience.
noun:  (figurative) The misdeed partially or entirely responsible for all of the similar ones after it.

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