Word Meanings - VENIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
forgiveness, pardon, grace, favor, kindness; akin to venerari to 1. Capable of being forgiven; not heinous; excusable; pardonable; as, a venial fault or transgression. So they do nothing, 't is a venial slip. Shak. 2. Allowed; permitted.
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forgiveness, pardon, grace, favor, kindness; akin to venerari to 1. Capable of being forgiven; not heinous; excusable; pardonable; as, a venial fault or transgression. So they do nothing, 't is a venial slip. Shak. 2. Allowed; permitted. "Permitting him the while venial discourse unblamed." Milton. Venial sin , a sin which weakens, but does not wholly destroy, sanctifying grace, as do mortal, or deadly, sins. -- Ve"ni*al*ly, adv. -- Ve"ni*al*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
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- VENIALITY
The quality or state of being venial; venialness. Jer. Taylor. - PARDONABLENESS
The quality or state of being pardonable; as, the pardonableness of sin. Bp. Hall. - EXCUSABLE
That may be excused, forgiven, justified, or acquitted of blame; pardonable; as, the man is excusable; an excusable action. -- Ex*cus"a*ble*ness, n. -- Ex*cus"a*bly, adv. The excusableness of my dissatisfaction. Boyle. - VENIAL
forgiveness, pardon, grace, favor, kindness; akin to venerari to 1. Capable of being forgiven; not heinous; excusable; pardonable; as, a venial fault or transgression. So they do nothing, 't is a venial slip. Shak. 2. Allowed; permitted. - PARDONABLE
Admitting of pardon; not requiring the excution of penalty; venial; excusable; -- applied to the offense or to the offender; as, a pardonable fault, or culprit. - INEXCUSABLE
Not excusable; not admitting excuse or justification; as, inexcusable folly. Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest; for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same - UNEXCUSABLE
Inexcusable. Hayward. -- Un`ex*cus"a*ble*ness, n. - UNPARDONABLE
Not admitting of pardon or forgiveness; inexcusable. - IMPARDONABLE
Unpardonable. South. - INEXCUSABLENESS
The quality of being inexcusable; enormity forgiveness. South.