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venial.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
venial.
Principal English Translation: 

venial, little sins

Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 16.

Attestations from sources in English: 

in manel tepiton tlahtlacolli, in motenehua Venial, in ahmo ohui yc polihui = even little sins, which are called venial, which are destroyed without difficulty (late sixteenth century, Central Mexico)
Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 16.