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Acedia

noun
1.
Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).  Synonyms: laziness, sloth.






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"Acedia" Quotes from Famous Books



... adorned. He who has received this lively zeal from God is removed far from the fifth deadly sin—lukewarmness and gloominess towards the virtues necessary for salvation. [Footnote: The best account in English of the deadly sin of acedia, too much neglected in modern religious teaching, is to be found in Bishop Paget's Spirit of Discipline.] And sometimes this lively zeal disperses heaviness and sluggishness of the bodily temperament. ...
— Light, Life, and Love • W. R. Inge



Words linked to "Acedia" :   mortal sin, laziness, sloth, deadly sin



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