Meaning of Veniality | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The quality of being venial (pardonable).
   uncountable
2. A venial (pardonable) action or an instance of venial behaviour.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“When he heard him in after years accused of shameless veniality, of trickery, lying, duplicity, even murder, he always remembered that impulsive revelation--never repeated--of a warped, unhappy childhood, of a perverted destiny. Mr. Morris came to him later as he stood leaning against the wall behind the chair of Madame de Chastellux. "”

“However enraged I might be at the new revelation of Addicks' extraordinary veniality, the other elements in the situation remained as before.”

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