Meanings
- not comparablesimileVery original.
Say what you will, once whispered a friend of mine, there are things in him strong as poison, and original as sin.
1824, The London Magazine, volume 9, page 5291 more example
But I had no guess of it then as I sat writing by the fireside, in what seemed the spring-tides of a somewhat pedestrian inspiration; nor yet day by day, after lunch, as I read aloud my morning's work to the family. It seemed to me original as sin; it seemed to belong to me like my right eye.
1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC
Origin
Referring to the Christian concept of original sin.
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