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- Ecclesiastical Latin · derived frompeccātum philosophicum
- English todayphilosophical sin
Ultimately from Ecclesiastical Latin peccātum philosophicum, coined around 1600.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
philosophical sin
Today it means: Sin that is said to contravene the natural moral order rather than offending God directly, for example because the sinner is ignorant of divine law or does not think of God in the act. Full definition →
Ecclesiastical Latin peccātum philosophicum