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Subject: A.Word.A.Day--venery
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 Wordsmith.org The Magic of Words

Aug 12, 2015
This week’s theme
Words related to space
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A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg

venery

PRONUNCIATION:
(VEN-uh-ree)

MEANING:
noun:
1. The practice or pursuit of s=e xual pleasure.
2. Hunting.

ETYMOLOGY:
For 1: From Latin veneria, from venus (desire, love). Venus was the
goddess of love and beauty in Roman mythology who gave her name to the
planet Venus. Earliest documented use: 1497.
For 2: From Old French venerie, from vener (to hunt). Earliest
documented use: 1330. In olden times one was supposed to know the
terms of venery.
Ultimately both senses are from the Indo-European root wen- (to desire
or to strive for), which is also the source of wish, win, overweening,
venerate, venison, banyan, wonted, venial, andween. Earliest
documented use: 1330.

USAGE:
“Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness,
weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or reputation.”
Benjamin Franklin; The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; J. Parsons; 1793.

“In those days true dedication to venery meant having your own hunting pack.”
Philip Bowern; Hunting the Hills of Devon; The Western Morning News
(Plymouth, UK); Dec 17, 2012.

See more usage examples of venery in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

http://wordsmith.org/words/venery.html
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