Venial is valid Scrabble Word

Is venial a scrabble word?
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6 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for VENIAL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

easily excused or forgiven
denoting a sin that is not regarded as depriving the soul of divine grace
(of a fault or offence) slight and pardonable.
(of a sin or fault) easily forgiven
Capable of being forgiven; not heinous; excusable; pardonable; as, a venial fault or transgression.
Allowed; permitted.
warranting only temporal punishment

Words related to VENIAL

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Words that contain VENIAL

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How to use VENIAL in a sentence

But she soon was obliged to give up this confessor, since he began to confess to her, and to confess sins in comparison with which the sins she confessed were venial indeed.
Even women inflicted upon their female slaves punishments of the most cruel atrocity for faults of the most venial character.
These sins are often unpublished, although not always undiscovered, but they are no more venial because they are suppressed by wealth and power.
Compared with this his Lecompton revolt had been a venial offense.
Did we see it truly, it would be a not venial sin, but an unpardonable crime.
His linen is as well cared for as that of the confessor of the devotee, all whose sins are venial.
Venial as was this attitude of adulation under all the circumstances, it had a most evil influence on the service.
Those who have only committed venial sins are first purified of them, and then rewarded for the good which they have done.
Death was named as the punishment for such venial faults as dancing, gambling, or the wearing of rich attire.
If he had argued that his sin was comparatively venial and so personal-peculiar that it carried with it no temptation to the normal man, I should not have disputed his point.

But the distinction of venial and mortal sins, upon which it proceeded, was even now generally acknowledged.
For they regard bodily ailments as the more venial in proportion as they have been produced by causes independent of the constitution.
In popular conception literary theft is at worst a venial sin whose very iniquity is doubtful unless found out.
Here I will but observe on the subject of venial sin generally, that he altogether forgets our doctrine of purgatory.
Some, however, hold that Extreme Unction is ordained against venial sin.
Therefore, since contrary is taken away by its contrary, it seems that venial sins are not forgiven by this sacrament.
Consequently, it is manifest that venial sins are forgiven by the power of this sacrament.
Therefore, venial sins do not hinder the effect of this sacrament.
Venial sins taken in the first way do not in any way hinder the effect of this sacrament.
For it can come to pass that after many venial sins a man may approach devoutly to this sacrament and fully secure its effect.
Now every one of these three causes can be without sin at all, or else with venial sin, or with mortal sin.
Therefore venial sins can be forgiven without penance.
Therefore, in order that venial sin be removed, it is not necessary that habitual grace be infused, but a movement of grace or charity suffices for its forgiveness.
Therefore the above have nothing to do with the remission of venial sins.
Therefore venial sin can be taken away without mortal sin.
The child, who teaches its grandmother to suck eggs, commits a venial fault in comparison.
Moreover, she had read of such queer goings on among the British Aristocracy that a wedding at sight was a comparatively venial offense.
Of course, in these the popes had not to introduce his books of diversions, which, nevertheless, would have seemed in their eyes but very venial sins.
A greedy ant, a sensual ant, an ant capable of any one of the seven deadly sins, or even of a small venial sin, is unimaginable.
Our every day familiarity with venial sin, our easy tolerance of it, the adjustment of our lives to habits that involve it, have resulted in a lack of spiritual sensitiveness.
Venial sins sat lightly on the conscience of John Massingbird.
He could lock the door on Nydia, and, if Arbaces should learn his absence, the offence was venial, and would merit but a reprimand.
The most venial self-indulgence was regarded as criminal.
To engage in a prize fight, whatever the prize, whether money or merely the love of woman, if a venial, was not a mortal sin.

Similar words containing VENI without suffix al

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