Definition of "veniality"

When he heard him in after years accused of shameless veniality, 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. "

1903, Carter Goodloe, Calvert of Strathore‎

However enraged I might be at the new revelation of Addicks' extraordinary veniality, the other elements in the situation remained as before.

1905, Thomas W. Lawson, Frenzied Finance‎