The sensual appetites and inclinations as antagonistic to the nobler elements of human nature. In theological language (after St. Paul's use of σάρξ)…

a state of corruption or sinfulness, or a tendency to evil, supposedly innate in all human beings and held to be inherited from Adam as a…

Theology. With the. Sometimes with capital initial. The descent or lapse of humankind into a sinful state as a result of the transgression of Adam…

original sin; cf. birth sin n.

original sin.

(a) Theology a descent from a state of divine favour into sin (cf. earlier to fall from grace at phrases 4b); esp. the lapse of humankind into a…

Theology. The ‘Fall’ (of Adam). Obsolete.

(a) Theology = fall from grace n. (a) at phrases 2c; (b) a temporary departure from expected standards; a (minor) mistake or transgression.

The state of sin into which, according to traditional Jewish and Christian theology, humankind lapsed because of Adam's transgression; = original sin…

Allusively, the Fall of Man or the sin of Adam as resulting in the blessedness of the Redemption. Frequently transferred, an apparent error or…