The Antients venially delighted in flourishing Gardens; Many were Florists that knew not the true use of a Flower; And in Plinies dayes none had directly treated of that subject.
Beside, such Discourses allow excursions, and venially admit of collaterall truths, though at some distance from their principals.
Circumstances that are gravely evil practically vitiate the entire action, but circumstances which are venially evil do not always vitiate the entire action.
Now he that sins venially seems to contemn small things.
Further, venial and mortal sin are said to differ in this, that he who sins mortally loves a creature more than God, while he who sins venially loves the creature less than God.
Now it is possible for the child to sin venially during that space of time, however short it may be.
But man could not sin venially in the primitive state, and much less, therefore, can an angel.
Whether man could sin venially in the state of innocence?
For it is not against the law, since he who sins venially neither does what the law forbids, nor omits what the law prescribes to be done; but he acts beside the law, through not observing the mode of reason, which the law intends.
Formal Cooperation by the Manufacture or Sale of Objects Whose Sole Purpose is Gravely or Venially Sinful.
Restitution for Damages That Are Only Venially Sinful but Seriously Harmful.
Hence, there is a great diversity of opinion among moralists on this subject, and it will frequently be uncertain in an individual case whether a theft is mortally or only venially sinful in itself.
But if this person was not completely drunk and had some realization of the malice and scandal of bad language, he is at least venially guilty of profanity and scandal.
The circumstances of an act that is onlyvenially sinful in itself also make the act mortally sinful, when there is grave malice in such circumstances.
The omission of the particle "enim" would be only venially sinful.
Nothing hinders a person who has a virtuous habit from sinning venially and without losing the habit, or mortally and with loss of the habit of gratuitous virtue.
It is not, however, against this precept to sin venially on the Sabbath, because venial sin does not destroy holiness.
Nevertheless they may sin venially or mortally through neglect, concupiscence, or contempt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "venially" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
