veniable

English

Etymology

From Latin veniabilis, from venia (“forgiveness, pardon”).

Adjective

veniable (comparative more veniable, superlative most veniable)

  1. (obsolete) venial; pardonable
    • 1672, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 6th edition, book 3, chapter 12:
      More veniable is a dependance upon the Philosophers stone, potable gold, or any of those Arcana's whereby Paracelsus that died himself at forty seven, gloried that he could make other men immortal.
  • veniably

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