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Word of the Day for Wednesday August 31, 2005

venial \VEE-nee-uhl\, adjective:
Capable of being forgiven; not heinous; excusable; pardonable.(可被原諒的、不凶惡的)

Look less severely on a venial error.
--Jean Racine, Phaedra (translated by Robert Bruce Boswell)

His mistake might in other circumstances have seemed a
venial one.
--Michael Knox Beran, [1]The Last Patrician

Committing adultery was a mortal sin, while eating meat on
Fridays was a venial sin.
--Sheryl McCarthy, "O'Connor Proposal for Meatless Day Is
Thoughtless," [2]Newsday, August 12, 1996