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venial sin
noun as in slight transgression
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The SEC charging Goldman with securities fraud is like the Vatican charging a priest with venial sin.
That is true, the Church teaches, even of unrepented156 venial sin with its debt of temporal punishment.
The first is a venial sin, and easily forgiven—the second nearly unpardonable.
What is a venial sin against nature, what a mortal sin against nature?
It is at most an evil thought, a venial sin, which does not endanger the loss of body or of soul.
O quiet paths of algebra, you are my excuse for this venial sin!
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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to venial sin, such as: impropriety, indiscretion, lapse, minor wrong, misstep, and peccadillo.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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