Crossword-Solution: VENIAL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Venial | a. | Capable of being forgiven; not heinous; excusable; pardonable; as, a venial fault or transgression. |
| Venial | a. | Allowed; permitted. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| VENIAL | anagram | ALEVIN, ALVINE, VALINE, VEINAL |
We have 14 clues for the answer “VENIAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Easily excused | 1 answer |
| Forgivable, as some sins | 1 answer |
| Minor, as a sin | 1 answer |
| Mortal's counterpart | 1 answer |
| NOT very wrong | 1 answer |
| Not mortal, as a sin | 1 answer |
| That can be forgiven. | 1 answer |
| Pardonable | 6 answers |
| "__ forgiven!" | 7 answers |
| forgivable | 9 answers |
| A SIN THAT IS NOT REGARDED AS DEPRIVING THE SOUL OF DIVINE GRACE | 11 answers |
| excusable | 15 answers |
| Minor | 19 answers |
| Pardoner | 22 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with VENIAL (5)
The error is, indeed, a venial one, but it is just one of those little things which at once enable a lawyer to know if the writer is a layman or “one of the craft.” But when a layman ventures to plunge deeply into legal subjects, he is naturally apt to make an exhibition of his incompetence.
She had played her great scene, she had made her point, and now she had her eye at the hole in the curtain and she was watching the house! But she blushed as she perceived his smile, and her blush, which was beautiful, made her fault venial.
This, it must be confessed, was a slightly malicious stroke; the reader must judge in what degree the offense was venial.
There was also added the opinion which infinitely increased Private Masses, namely that Christ, by His passion, had made satisfaction for original sin, and instituted the Mass wherein an offering should be made for daily sins, venial and mortal.
The theatrical touch in her manner made his offense seem more venial than he had thought it a moment before.
Quotes with VENIAL (3)
Already he knew something of the history of the intervening years. He had heard now of the moral decay that had followed the collapse of supernatural religion in the minds of ignoble man, the decline of public honour, the ascendency of wealth. For men who had lost their belief in God had still kept their faith in property, and wealth ruled a venial world.
We have got into the habit of admiring colossal bandits, whose opulence is revered by the entire world, yet whose existence, once we stop to examine it, proves to be one long crime repeated ad infinitum, but those same bandits are heaped with glory, honors, and power, their crimes are hallowed by the law of the land, whereas, as far back in history as the eye can see — and history, as you know is my business — everything conspires to show that a venial theft, especially of in…
In medicine sins of commission are mortal sins of omission venial.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1966–2022).