He did not say that he should favour such an attempt; But he did say that such an attempt would be venial.
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Venial
/ˈviːni.əl/
Synonyms for "venial" (34 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (7)
Adjective(3 words)
Strong matches (10)
Related words (17)
Related word relations
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More general
4 entriesMore specific
6 entriesdeadly sinmortal sinvenial errorvenial faultvenial lapsevenial offense
Collocations
6 entriesvenial errorvenial faultvenial lapsevenial offensevenial sinvenial transgression
Inflections
2 entriesmore venialmost venial
Derivations
2 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
19 translations across 12 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- ներելի adj (pardonable; able to be forgiven)
Bulgarian
1 entries- простим adj (pardonable; able to be forgiven)
French
1 entries- véniel adj (pardonable; able to be forgiven)
Georgian
3 entries- მისატევებელი adj (pardonable; able to be forgiven)
- საპატიებელი adj (pardonable; able to be forgiven)
- შესაწყნარებელი adj (pardonable; able to be forgiven)
German
2 entries- lässlich adj (pardonable; able to be forgiven)
- läßlich adj (pardonable; able to be forgiven)
Hungarian
1 entries- bocsánatos adj (pardonable; able to be forgiven)
Icelandic
2 entries- afsakanlegur adj (pardonable; able to be forgiven)
- fyrirgefanlegur adj (pardonable; able to be forgiven)
Italian
1 entries- veniale adj (pardonable; able to be forgiven)
Manx
1 entries- so-phardooney adj (pardonable; able to be forgiven)
Polish
3 entries- lekki adj (pardonable; able to be forgiven)
- przebaczalny adj (pardonable; able to be forgiven)
- wybaczalny adj (pardonable; able to be forgiven)
Portuguese
2 entries- perdoável adj (pardonable; able to be forgiven)
- venial adj (pardonable; able to be forgiven)
Spanish
1 entries- venial adj (pardonable; able to be forgiven)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
His venial youthful indiscretions.
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