English-French translations for venial sin

• péché véniel
  Aux yeux de nombre de mes collègues, l’incompétence passe pour un péché véniel. In the eyes of some of my colleagues, incompetence passes for a venial sin.

Definition of venial sin

• A sin that is not a mortal sin; a sin that is not grave, or was not deliberate or was committed without a full understanding of the consequences

Related words

• venial
• venialness
• veniality