Usually means: Minor; easily forgivable; not grave.
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  1. venial: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. venial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. venial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. venial: Collins English Dictionary
  5. venial: Vocabulary.com
  6. Venial, venial: Wordnik
  7. venial: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. venial: Wiktionary
  9. venial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. venial: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. venial: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. venial: Dictionary.com
  13. venial: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Venial: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. venial: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. venial: Rhymezone
  17. Venial: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. venial: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. venial: Free Dictionary
  20. venial: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. venial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. venial: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. venial: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. venial: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  Able to be forgiven; worthy of forgiveness.
adjective:  (often, especially) Worthy of forgiveness because trifling (trivial).
adjective:  (religion, of a sin) Not causing spiritual death.

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