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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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UNGENEROUSLY adv.

In an ungenerous manner.

UNMANNERLY a. 2 definitions

Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.

Enervate. [Obs.]

To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm. Unequal match'd, . . . The unnerved father falls. Shak.

UNREGENERACY n.

The quality or state of being unregenerate. Glanvill.

UNREGENERATE; UNREGENERATED a.

Not regenerated; not renewed in heart; remaining or being at enmity with God.

UNREGENERATION n.

UNVULNERABLE a.

Invulnerable. [Obs.]

A spurner or contemner; a despiser; a scoffer. [Obs.] Joye.

VACUUM CLEANER n.

A machine for cleaning carpets, tapestry, upholstered work, etc., by suction.

Having the nerves, or veins, placed in apparent disorder.

A machine for concentrating ore. See Frue vanner.

The kestrel. [Prov. Eng.]

VENERABILITY n.

The quality or state of being venerable; venerableness. Dr. H. More.

VENERABLE a. 2 definitions

Capable of being venerated; worthy of veneration or reverence; deserving of honor and respect; -- generally implying an advanced age; as, a venerable magistrate; a venerable parent. He was a man of eternal self-sacrifice, and that is always venerable. De Quincey. Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former ge…

An extensive tribe of bivalve mollusks of which the genus Venus is the type. The shells are usually oval, or somewhat heartshaped, with a conspicuous lunule. See Venus.

rential respect; to honor with mingled respect and awe; to reverence; to revere; as, we venerate parents and elders. And seemed to venerate the sacred shade. Dryden. I do not know a man more to be venerated for uprightness of heart and loftiness of genius. Sir W. Scott.

The act of venerating, or the state of being venerated; the highest degree of respect and reverence; respect mingled with awe; a feeling or sentimental excited by the dignity, wisdom, or superiority of a person, by sacredness of character, by consecration to sacred services, or by hallowed associations. We find a secre…

One who venerates. Jer. Taylor

VENEREAL a. 6 definitions

Of or pertaining to venery, or sexual love; relating to sexual intercourse. Into the snare I fell Of fair, fallacious looks, venereal trains, Softened with pleasure and voluptuous life. Milton.