veniality

plural venialities

1. uncountableThe quality of being venial (pardonable).

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

   1905, Thomas W. Lawson, Frenzied Finance

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   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. "

   1903, Carter Goodloe, Calvert of Strathore

   Synonyms: forgivableness, pardonableness, venialness

2. countableA venial (pardonable) action or an instance of venial behaviour.

   Synonyms: peccadillo, transgression, wrongdoing, crime, delict, delinquency, error, malfeasance