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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
original sin

▶noun Christian Theology the tendency to evil supposedly innate in all human beings, held to be inherited from Adam in consequence of the Fall.

'original sin' also found in these Oxford entries:

Immaculate Conception - Pelagian

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they regarded over-simplification as the original sin of the mind

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