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VENIAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does venial mean?
• VENIAL (adjective)
The adjective VENIAL has 2 senses:
1. warranting only temporal punishment
2. easily excused or forgiven
Familiarity information: VENIAL used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Warranting only temporal punishment
Synonyms:
minor; venial
Context example:
venial sin
Similar:
pardonable (admitting of being pardoned)
Domain category:
divinity; theology (the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Easily excused or forgiven
Synonyms:
excusable; forgivable; venial
Context example:
a venial error
Similar:
pardonable (admitting of being pardoned)
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