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单词 venery
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venery1

noun ˈvɛn(ə)riˈvɛnəri
mass nounarchaic
  • Sexual indulgence.

    not a few of them engaged in venery
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
    • And further, it is greatly irritated by constant contact with the clothing and stimulates venery and coitus.
    • Art, literature and music have amplified this veneration for venery.
    • What is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence?

Origin

Late Middle English: from medieval Latin veneria, from venus, vener- 'sexual love'.

Rhymes

antennary, bimillenary, millenary

venery2

noun ˈvɛn(ə)riˈvɛnəri
mass nounarchaic
  • Hunting.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • So we are, as Phil said, more concerned with the art of venery rather than the galloping over other people's land.
    • We feel that it is one of the finest hunts of venery that we actually see.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French venerie, from vener 'to hunt', from Latin venari.

 
 

venery1

nounˈvɛnəri
archaic
  • Sexual indulgence.

    not a few of them engaged in venery
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Art, literature and music have amplified this veneration for venery.
    • Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
    • And further, it is greatly irritated by constant contact with the clothing and stimulates venery and coitus.
    • What is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence?

Origin

Late Middle English: from medieval Latin veneria, from venus, vener- ‘sexual love’.

venery2

nounˈvɛnəri
archaic
  • Hunting.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • So we are, as Phil said, more concerned with the art of venery rather than the galloping over other people's land.
    • We feel that it is one of the finest hunts of venery that we actually see.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French venerie, from vener ‘to hunt’, from Latin venari.

 
 
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