Sentence examples similar to a venial error from inspiring English sources
By Russian standards, this was a venial venal sin, if sin at all.
A venial sin usually involves a less important matter and is committed with less self-awareness of wrongdoing.
Does that count as lying about my education, or is it merely a venial sin of omission?
The knock at the door under the guise of a warrant of arrest for a venial or spurious offense was not unknown to them.
"Unless Micheletti does something incredibly outrageous or stupid, I still think he has won this," says Peter Hakim, of Inter-American Dialogue, a think-tank in Washington, DC. "Honduras may have committed a venial sin, but it's not Serbia or Darfur.
While a venial sin weakens the sinner's union with God, it is not a deliberate turning from him and so does not wholly block the inflow of sanctifying grace.
The second was to commit a venial sin.
When Durocher subsequently married Day, a local Catholic priest declared that attending Dodgers games was a venial sin.
This was not easy, since I was not exactly sure what a venial sin was, but I knew anything the nuns at school were campaigning so hard against must be a worthy pursuit.
In many cases this may amount to a venial statistical sin with (hopefully) benign consequences.
