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venial

adj
/ˈviːni.əl/

Etymology

From Old French venial, borrowed from Late Latin veniālem (“pardonable”), from Latin venia (“forgiveness”).

  1. derived from venia
  2. derived from venialis — “pardonable”
  3. derived from venial

Definitions

  1. Able to be forgiven

    Able to be forgiven; worthy of forgiveness.

    • He did not say that he should favour such an attempt; But he did say that such an attempt would be venial.

  2. Not causing spiritual death.

The neighborhood

Derived

venial sin

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for venial. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA