English Explanatory Dictionary

philosophical sin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see philosophical, sin.

Word forms

philosophical sin philosophical sins

Etymology

Ultimately from Ecclesiastical Latin peccātum philosophicum, coined around 1600.

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