Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Beautiful; amiable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Beautiful.
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- adjective obsolete
beautiful
Etymologies
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Latin venustus, from Venus the goddess of love.
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Examples
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In a copy now before me, lately the property of one of our most eminent critics, Mr. Fark, I read the following very just quotation, in his handwriting: 'Multa venust ` e, multa tenuiter multa cuni bile.'
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
pavonine commented on the word venust
From the goddess Venus - beautiful;pleasant
November 6, 2007
seanahan commented on the word venust
The t really takes away from the beauty of the word.
November 6, 2007