venial 的定义
- able to be forgiven or pardoned; not seriously wrong, as a sin.
- excusable; trifling; minor: a venial error; a venial offense.
venial 近义词
pardonable
更多venial例句
- The SEC charging Goldman with securities fraud is like the Vatican charging a priest with venial sin.
- The child, who teaches its grandmother to suck eggs, commits a venial fault in comparison.
- Its greatest fault was not extravagance, for that is a venial folly, but ignorance, which even youth cannot wholly excuse.
- In these hopeful moods it was a necessity of his drama that his transgression of the law should seem venial to him.
- Play, in men whose means are ample, if considered a vice, is thought a very venial one.
- Those who have only committed venial sins are first purified of them, and then rewarded for the good which they have done.