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venerean en · ADJ

Etymology

Compare French vénérien.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Devoted to the offices of Venus, or love; venereal.
   • I am all venerean in feeling 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story via the 'title' parameter)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

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