Usually means: Minor sin, easily forgiven, pardonable.
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  1. venial sin: Merriam-Webster
  2. venial sin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. venial sin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. venial sin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. venial sin: Vocabulary.com
  6. venial sin: Wordnik
  7. venial sin: Wiktionary
  8. venial sin: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. venial sin: Dictionary.com
  10. Venial sin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. venial sin: Rhymezone
  12. venial sin: FreeDictionary.org
  13. venial sin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. venial sin: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. Venial Sin: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. venial sin: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (venial sin)

noun:  (Roman Catholicism, theology) A sin that is not a mortal sin; a sin that is not grave, or was not deliberate or was committed without a full understanding of the consequences.

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