Definitions
feeling a need to see others suffer
Word origin
From Middle English venym, from Old French venim, from Vulgar Latin *venīmen, from Early Medieval Latin venīnum, from Classical Latin venēnum (“drug; poison; a charm”), ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to love”). Doublet of venin and venene.
Used in a sentence
“[…] There may be in the cup / A spider steep’d, and one may drink, depart, / And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge / Is not infected...”
“And from the Boughs brush off the evil dew, / And heal the harms of thwarting thunder blew, / Or what the cross dire-looking Planet smites, / Or hurtfull Worm with canker’d venom bites […]”
“I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Poison”5 letters
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