Word Meanings - VENERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Sexual love; sexual intercourse; coition. Contentment, without the pleasure of lawful venery, is continence; of unlawful, chastity. Grew.

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• CONTENTMENT
  1. The state of being contented or satisfied; content. Contentment without external honor is humility. Grew. Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim. vi. 6. 2. The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice
• COITION
  A coming together; sexual intercourse; copulation. Grew.
• INTERCOURSE
  A This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. Milton. Sexual intercourse, sexual or carnal connection; coition. Syn. -- Communication; connection; commerce; communion; fellowship; familiarity; acquaintance. (more info) commerce, exchange,
• VENERY
  Sexual love; sexual intercourse; coition. Contentment, without the pleasure of lawful venery, is continence; of unlawful, chastity. Grew.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• CONTINENCE; CONTINENCY
  1. Self-restraint; self-command. He knew what to say; he knew also, when to leave off, -- a continence which is practiced by few writers. Dryden. 2. The restraint which a person imposes upon his desires and passions; the act or power of refraining
• UNLAWFUL
  Not lawful; contrary to law. -- Un*law"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*law"ful*ness, n. Unlawful assembly. See under Assembly.
• PLEASURER
  A pleasure seeker. Dickens.
• PLEASURELESS
  Devoid of pleasure. G. Eliot.
• SEXUALLY
  In a sexual manner or relation.
• PLEASURE
  1. The gratification of the senses or of the mind; agreeable sensations or emotions; the excitement, relish, or happiness produced by the expectation or the enjoyment of something good, delightful, or satisfying; -- opposed to Ant: pain,
• CHASTITY
  Chasteness. (more info) 1. The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse. She . . . hath preserved her spotless chastity. T. Carew. 2. Moral purity. So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul
• WITHOUTEN
  Without. Chaucer.
• PLEASUREFUL
  Affording pleasure.
• LAWFUL
  1. Conformable to law; allowed by law; legitimate; competent. 2. Constituted or authorized by law; rightful; as, the lawful owner of lands. Lawful age, the age when the law recognizes one's right of independent action; majority; -- generally the
• SEXUALITY
  The quality or state of being distinguished by sex. Lindley.
• WITHOUT
  1. On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally. Without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Cor. vii. 5. 2. Outside of the house; out of doors. The people came unto the house without. Chaucer.
• SEXUALIST
  One who classifies plants by the sexual method of Linnæus.
• SEXUAL
  Of or pertaining to sex, or the sexes; distinguishing sex; peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female; relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes; proceeding from, or based upon, sex; as, sexual characteristics; sexual
• ASEXUALIZATION
  The act or process of sterilizing an animal or human being, as by vasectomy.
• ASEXUALLY
  In an asexual manner; without sexual agency.
• ASEXUAL
  Having no distinct; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.
• NONSEXUAL
  Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.
• UNSEXUAL
  Not sexual; not proper or peculiar to one of the sexes. De Quincey.