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adj. Easily excused or forgiven; pardonable: a venial offense.

adj. Roman Catholic Church Minor, therefore warranting only temporal punishment.

adj. Pardonable; able to be forgiven

adj. Excusable; trifling

adj. Capable of being forgiven; not heinous; excusable; pardonable.

adj. Allowed; permitted.

That may be forgiven; pardonable; not very sinful or wrong: as, a venial sin or transgression. See sin, 1.

Excusable; that may be allowed or permitted to pass without severe censure.

Permissible; harmless; unobjectionable.

Synonyms and Venial, Excusable, Pardonable. Excusable and pardonable are applied to things small and great, but pardonable primarily applies to greater offenses, as pardoning is a more serious act than excusing. Excusable may be applied where the offense is only in seeming. Venial applies to things actually done; the others may apply to infirmities and the like. Venial, by theological use, is often opposed, more or less clearly, to mortal.

n. A venial sin or offense.

adj. warranting only temporal punishment

adj. easily excused or forgiven

"“Those sins are called venial sins,” Mary Catherine continues."

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heinous    unrepented    impeachable    unpardonable    gravest    pardonable    unintentional    inexpiable    hainous    indictable