Meanings
adjectivevenerean (comparative more venerean, superlative most venerean)
comparative more venerean · superlative most venerean
- obsoleteDevoted 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
Origin
Compare French vénérien.
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