Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A bout; a thrust; a venew.
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- noun A
bout ; athrust ; avenew .
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Examples
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To perfect virtue, as to religion, there is required a panoplia, or complete armour; that whilst we lie at close ward against one vice, we lie not open to the veney [I. 75] of another.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643
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