? Obs. [f. VENIAL a.1 + -ITY; Sp. venialidad, Pg. venialidade.] a. The property or quality of being venial. b. A matter of favor or grace.
1628. Bp. Hall, Serm. Westm., 54. They palliate wickednesse with the faire pretence of Venialitie.
1654. H. L’Estrange, Chas. I. (1655), 138. The Flemish Busses … were soon reduced … to intreat the favour of fishing by his Majesties commission: a veniality the king was most ready to indulge them.
