Venial

Word VENIAL
Character 6
Hyphenation ve ni al
Pronunciations /ˈviːni.əl/

Definitions and meanings of "Venial"

What do we mean by venial?

Easily excused or forgiven; pardonable. adjective

Minor, therefore warranting only temporal punishment. adjective

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.

A venial sin or offense. noun

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

Allowed; permitted. adjective

A sin which weakens, but does not wholly destroy, sanctifying grace, as do mortal, or deadly, sins. adjective

Pardonable; able to be forgiven adjective

Excusable; trifling adjective

Warranting only temporal punishment adjective

Easily excused or forgiven adjective

Pardonable; able to be forgiven.

Excusable; trifling

Synonyms and Antonyms for Venial

The word "venial" in example sentences

“Those sins are called venial sins,” Mary Catherine continues. ❋ Christina Meldrum (2011)

Rome teaches, that is, purificatory and punitive), but probatory, not restricted to those dying in "venial sin"; the supposed intermediate class between those entering heaven at once, and those dying in mortal sin who go to hell, but universal, testing the godly and ungodly alike ❋ Unknown (1871)

To his mind, the venial were the more numerous, but then, he had been a cynic for many years now. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1992)

The difference can not be the same as betwixt sins that are called venial and mortal: for he says, that if a man pray for his brother, who commits a sin that is not to death, life shall be given him: therefore such a one had before lost the life of grace, and been guilty of what is commonly called a mortal sin. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Therefore gluttony is accounted among the lesser, that is to say venial, sins. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

It is called venial precisely because, considered in its own proper nature, it is pardonable; in itself meriting, not eternal, but temporal punishment. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

That doctrine which asserts any sin to be in its nature venial, that is, such as God cannot in justice punish with damnation, tends to subvert a good life: but the doctrine of the church of Rome asserts this; and lays the foundation of this assertion in a distinction between works done against the law, and works done beside the law. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

It is true that the greatest sins are in one sense venial, that is, ❋ Unknown (1692)

Lesser sins, called venial sins, are less deadly and are more easily eradicated. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And make no mistake (to borrow some Catholic theology), we're not talking about "venial" sins, but "mortal" sins, i.e., acts of Evil and pathology that trivialize business as usual political hypocrisy and greed. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But he gives the appellation of "mortal sin" to that which is exercised in operation itself, and "venial" to that which consists in the act and motion of lusting or indulging in concupiscence, without the consent of the will. ❋ 1560-1609 (1956)

For instead of "venial" it should be "venal," since such is the wanton's trade. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Nevertheless he needs to have the purpose of taking steps to commit fewer venial sins, else he would be in danger of falling back, if he gave up the desire of going forward, or of removing the obstacles to spiritual progress, such as venial sins are. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

But here, in a complimentary poem to a patron and intimate friend, these are jocularly alluded to as the venial indulgences of his earliest youth "(vol. i, p. 453, second edition). ❋ Unknown (2007)

What part of threatening to murder someone, and apparently punching a woman holding a child is "venial". ❋ Unknown (2010)

Goldstein's errors, such a they might have been, seem to be the kind of venial oversight that is usually corrected (if at all) in the case of a published paper, by a brief erratum note in a subsequent number. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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