venial

How To Use venial In A Sentence

• 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.
• The difference can not be the same as betwixt sins that are called venial and mortal: for he says, that if a man pray for his brother, who commits a sin that is not to death, life shall be given him: therefore such a one had before lost the life of grace, and been guilty of what is commonly called a mortal sin. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 69: 1 John The Challoner Revision
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• Therefore gluttony is accounted among the lesser, that is to say venial, sins. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
• Its content mainly includes the confession of a suspect or a defendant to acknowledge a crime and his exculpation to declare himself innocent or guilty of a venial crime.
• But the schoolmen and casuists having too much philosophy to go about to clear a lie from that intrinsic inordination and deviation from right reason inherent in the nature of it, and yet withal unwilling to rob the world, and themselves especially, of so sweet a morsel of liberty, held that a lie was indeed absolutely and universally sinful; but then they held also, that only the pernicious He was a mortal sin, and the other two were only venial. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I.
• Luckily, the production is strong enough elsewhere for this to remain a venial sin.
• Khodorkovsky was also forced into lead an eremitic existence after committing the relatively venial sin of drinking tea in an unauthorized place--though this ruling sounds as though it may be a little harder to overturn. Court Rules Khodorkovsky's Isolation Was Unlawful
• Epstein openly admits to some ignoble if venial attitudes.