Sentence:  When he heard him in after years accused of shameless <WSD>veniality</WSD>, of trickery, lying, duplicity, even murder, he always remembered that impulsive revelation--never repeated--of a warped, unhappy childhood, of a perverted destiny. Mr. Morris came to him later as he stood leaning against the wall behind the chair of Madame de Chastellux. " 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The quality of being venial (pardonable).