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Veneration vs Feneration - What's the difference?

veneration | feneration |

As nouns the difference between veneration and feneration

is that veneration is veneration while feneration is (obsolete) lending money at interest; usury.

veneration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of venerating or the state of being venerated.
  • (senseid)Profound reverence, respect or awe.
  • * 1848 , , Vanity Fair , Bradbury and Evans, page 2:
    • In Miss Jemima's eyes an autograph letter of her sister, Miss Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign.
  • Religious zeal, idolatry or devotion.

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    feneration

    English

    Noun

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  • (obsolete) Lending money at interest; usury.
  • *1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.17:
  • *:what vices therein it figured; that is, not only pusillanimity and timidity from its temper, feneration or usury from its fÅ“cundity and superfetation, but from this mixture of sexes, unnatural venery and degenerous effemination.