Difference between Minor and Venial

What is the difference between Minor and Venial?

Minor as an adjective is of little significance or importance. while Venial as an adjective is pardonable; able to be forgiven

Minor

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of little significance or importance. Of a musical scale in which some notes are sounded flat.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A person who is below the legal age of responsibility or accountability. A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration. determinant of a square submatrix

Example sentence: A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Venial

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: pardonable; able to be forgivenexcusable; trifling

We hope you now know whether to use Minor or Venial in your sentence.

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