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How To Use venial In A Sentence

• It is called venial precisely because, considered in its own proper nature, it is pardonable; in itself meriting, not eternal, but temporal punishment. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
• He had compounded a number of venial failings with the mortal sin of adultery.
• Father Gerard explained there were other sins than the venial kind. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
• To his mind, the venial were the more numerous, but then, he had been a cynic for many years now. The Lark And The Wren
• Rome teaches, that is, purificatory and punitive), but probatory, not restricted to those dying in "venial sin"; the supposed intermediate class between those entering heaven at once, and those dying in mortal sin who go to hell, but universal, testing the godly and ungodly alike Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• Even quite venial offenders were sentenced to death.
• These sins are called venial sins because they do not separate the soul from its last end, nor destroy its supernatural life; also, they can be forgiven outside confession.
• Politics doesn't look at all like the hagiographies I read when I was at the Jesuit monastery, where all the saints were perfect, no venial sins even.
• Faught is guilty of this offense, but the sin is a venial one.
• Justinian at Constantinople; an anti-Handelist was looked upon as an anti-courtier, and voting against the Court in Parliament was hardly a less remissible or more venial sin than speaking against Handel or going to the Lincoln's Inn Fields Opera. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)