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venial

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ve·ni·al  (vn-l, vnyl)
adj.
1. Easily excused or forgiven; pardonable: a venial offense.
2. Roman Catholic Church Minor, therefore warranting only temporal punishment.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin venilis, from Latin venia, forgiveness; see wen-1 in Indo-European roots.]
veni·ali·ty (vn-l-t, vn-yl-), veni·al·ness (vn-l-ns, vnyl-) n.
veni·al·ly adv.
venial [veen-ee-al]
Adjective
easily excused or forgiven: venial sins [Latin venia forgiveness]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.venial - warranting only temporal punishment; "venial sin"
minor
theology, divinity - the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth
pardonable - admitting of being pardoned
2.venial - easily excused or forgiven; "a venial error"
forgivable, excusable
pardonable - admitting of being pardoned


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A venial sin, for you acted without evil intention.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Even theft, so venial a crime among the Indians, had recently been punished with hanging, by sentence of a chief.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
Yet it appeared to me that we were all, at Bly, sufficiently sacrificed to make that venial.
Turn Of The Screw by James, Henry View in context
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