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venially
adverb
religion formalspecializeduk /ˈviː.ni.ə.li/ us /ˈviː.ni.ə.li/
If a wrong action is done venially, it is not serious and is therefore easy to forgive:
sin veniallyI had sinned, but not mortally; venially only.
In every good work the just man sins at least venially.
Its limits were vague, and its infractions usually venially sinful.
It is clear that, in the state of innocence, man could not commit a venial sin.
The different acts were considered either not sinful, or venially sinful, or mortally sinful.
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