Meanings of venial fault in English

The Church herself would look very leniently on the venial fault.

The child, who teaches its grandmother to suck eggs, commits a venial fault in comparison.

Punished for a venial fault-sentto herd with hardened malefactors, is it wonderful that he should become schooled in crime?

To men thus sick of the languid manner of their contemporaries ruggedness seemed a venial fault, or rather a positive merit.

A much less venial fault than any typographical trifle is a tendency belonging to this author to repeat both incident and colloquy.

Plagiarism was thought to be a venial fault by the ancients, just as in the Homeric times piracy was not considered a disgrace.

Adultery-ifthe debauchee have wealth-isbut a venial fault, and to be found out a trifling misfortune, calling for condolence rather than condemnation.

Death was named as the punishment for such venial faults as dancing, gambling, or the wearing of rich attire.

"Celestina," he said, "thou art moved beyond what thy venial fault requires.

I learned when my first children were young that it was the part of wisdom to be sometimes blind to venial faults.

These wolf-cries, however, were venial faults; they denoted watchfulness; we were not disposed to take umbrage at small things; it was a day of victory.

The priesthood of every religious cult has manifested a propensity to magnify venial faults into cardinal sins and thereby bring worship into contempt by trifling.

"I wish I had!" said Isabel, simply, apparently forgetting for the moment that her poverty had been a venial fault for two gallant gentlemen.