veniality
nounEtymology From venial + -ity.
1
The quality of being venial (pardonable).
- 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:
- 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:
2
A venial (pardonable) action or an instance of venial behaviour.