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Venial sin

noun
1.
A pardonable sin regarded as entailing only a partial loss of grace.






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"Venial sin" Quotes from Famous Books



... even be found where the martyr's temper is altogether wanting. We recognize that there is certain serviceable, fustian, every-day piety, where, together with a great deal of spiritual coarseness, insensibility to venial sin and imperfection, there exists a firm faith that would go cheerfully to the stake rather than deny God, or offend Him in any grave point that might be considered a casus belli. And on the other hand a certain nicety of ethical discernment and delicacy ...
— The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) • George Tyrrell



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