original sins

Noun

original sin (countable and uncountable, plural original sins)

1. Adam's disobedience to God, beginning with his eating of the forbidden fruit, often depicted as an apple.
2. The state of sinfulness, present in each human from birth, which is a result of Adam's disobedience.
   • I vvas baptized in thy Cordiall vvater, againſt Original ſinne, and I haue drunke of thy Cordiall Blood, for my recouerie, from actuall, and habituall ſinne, in the other Sacrament.1624, John Donne, “11. Prayer.”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, pages 280–281
3. (figuratively) The misdeed partially or entirely responsible for all of the similar ones after it.
   • The dim-wits hardly realize that they come pretty close to accusing God of advocating ritual murder, when they use the Biblical story to prove the “original sin” of the Jews.1970, Morris Kominsky, chapter II, in The Hoaxers: Plain Liars, Fancy Liars, and Damned Liars, volume I, Boston: Branden Press, Inc., 8283-1288-5, page 191