English

Pronunciation

/'vɛnəri/

Etymology 1

From venerie, from , from venerie, from venor

Noun

1. hunting for wild animals.
   • 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.

     But soon enough he’d wake up the second, real time, to make again the tiresome discovery that it hadn’t really ever stopped being the same simple-minded, literal pursuit; V. ambiguously a beast of venery, chased like the hart, hind or hare, chased like an obsolete, or bizarre, or forbidden form of sexual delight.

2. Game animals.

Derived terms

• beast of venery
• terms of venery

Etymology 2

Mediaeval Latin veneria, from ''venus' ‘love’.

Noun

1. the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence

Venery can refer to the following:

• The practice or sport of hunting game animals, or the wild animals so hunted.
• The practice or pursuit of sexual pleasure, or the indulgence of sexual desire.

See also

• Collective noun – terms of venery (words for groups of animals)
• Sexual intercourse

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