What's the difference between veniable and venial?
Veniable
Definition:
(a.) Venial; pardonable.
Example Sentences:
Venial
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being forgiven; not heinous; excusable; pardonable; as, a venial fault or transgression.
(a.) Allowed; permitted.
Example Sentences:
(1) Based upon our previous experience on the treatment of meningococcal infections with satisfactory evolution when the fourth day of therapy was finalized and taking into account published experiences with four or less days of therapy, we realized a study on the efficacy of a four days therapy when venial meningococcal infections but of seven days when the serious ones.
(2) It is argued that obvious statistical blunders (mortal sins) have not disappeared entirely from the aging literature, but that the most frequent error now is that of choosing a less powerful analytic solution when a more powerful (and equally applicable) one is at hand (a venial sin).