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Definition: Venial Sin |
Venial SinNoun1. A pardonable sin regarded as entailing only a partial loss of grace. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Venial Sin One that may be pardoned; one that does not forfeit grace. In the Catholic Church sins are of two sorts, mortal and venial; in the Protestant Church there is no such distinction; but see Matt. xii. 31. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(Sub gravi is when a sin is committed to achieve an end. A levi gravi is a sin that is committed with no goal in mind.)
Each venial sin that one commits adds to one's time in purgatory. A venial sin can be left unconfessed. Venial sins remain venial no matter how many one commits; they cannot "add up" to collectively constitute a mortal sin.
See Jeremiah 7:26, Lamentations 4:6, Ezekiel 16:44-58, 1 John 5:16-17, Matthew 11:22, John 19:11.
"The Venial Sin" is a short story by Honoré de Balzac.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Venial sin."
| Antonym: mortal sin (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Venial Sin |
| Specialty definitions using "venial sin": Dying Sayings. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "venial sin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Czech | lehký hřích, hříšek (peccadillo). (various references) | ||||
Manx | peccah beg (peccadillo). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | enialvay insay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-l-n-n-s-v" | |
-1 letter: anilines. | |
-2 letters: alevins, aniline, anilins, asinine, valines. | |
-3 letters: alevin, aliens, alines, alvine, anilin, anvils, elains, inanes, insane, levins, liaise, lianes, linens, linins, livens, naives, navels, navies, saline, savine, sienna, silane, sileni, silvae, silvan, snivel, valine, valise, veinal, venial, venins, vinals, vineal. | |
-4 letters: aisle, alien, aline, alive, anile, anils, anise, anvil, avens, elain, elans, evils, inane, ivies, lanes, laves, leans, lenis, levin, liane, liens, linen, lines, linin, linns, liven, lives, naevi, nails, naive, navel, naves, nines, nisei, nival, salve, savin, selva, senna, silva, slain, slave, snail, vails, vales, valse, vanes, veals, veils, veins, venal, venin, vials, vinal, vinas, vines. | |
-5 letters: ails, ains, ales, anes, anil, anis, aves, elan, evil, ilea, ilia, inia, inns, isle, lain, lane, lase, lave, lavs, lean, leas, leis, lens, leva, lien, lies, line, linn, lins, live, nail, nans, nave, nevi, nils, nine, nisi, sail, sain, sale, sane, save, seal, sial, sine, vail, vain, vale, vane, vans, vase, veal, veil, vein, vela, vena, vial, vies, vile, vina, vine, visa, vise. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-l-n-n-s-v" | |
+2 letters: vinblastine. | |
+3 letters: antinovelist, ventilations, vinblastines. | |
+4 letters: antediluvians, antinovelists, inviolateness, nonvalidities, novelizations, plaintiveness. | |
+5 letters: anticonvulsive, inevitableness, intransitively, inviolableness, overinflations, unavailingness, universalizing, vernalizations, villainousness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 65 6E 69 61 6C      53 69 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100101 01101110 01101001 01100001 01101100 00100000 01010011 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V e n i a l   S i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0065 006E 0069 0061 006C      0053 0069 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5671807567782537580 |
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