Noun

(uncountable) The quality of being venial (pardonable).

*{{quote-book, year=1903, author=Carter Goodloe, title=Calvert of Strathore, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=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. " }}

*{{quote-book, year=1905, author=Thomas W. Lawson, title=Frenzied Finance, chapter=, edition= citation

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

(countable) A venial (pardonable) action or an instance of venial behaviour.