venal vs venial
Definitions
adjective
- capable of being corrupted
Examples
Virtually all of the clergy are portrayed as venal and conspiratorial.
A short autobiography is prefixed to the 1827 edition of Juvenal.
At school, like my peers, I was indoctrinated in the mysteries of original and venal sin, virgin birth, the respective criteria for entry to limbo, purgatory, and heaven.
Definitions
adjective
- warranting only temporal punishment
- easily excused or forgiven
Examples
It is called venial precisely because, considered in its own proper nature, it is pardonable; in itself meriting, not eternal, but temporal punishment.
I dont know whether i will laugh at myself when i am old, overlook myself just for venial things.
If a lie in itself only constitutes a venial sin, it becomes mortal when it does grave injury to the virtues of justice and charity.
