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Venal vs Vendible - What's the difference?

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Venal is a synonym of vendible.


As adjectives the difference between venal and vendible

is that venal is available for a price; venal while vendible is salable; able to be bought, sold, or traded.

As a noun vendible is

anything that can be bought and sold.

venal

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • venous; pertaining to veins

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) , compare vend

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) For sale; available for purchase.
  • Of a position, privilege etc.: available for purchase rather than assigned on merit.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 140:
    • Thus, regimental commands in the army were – as with the judiciary or the financial bureaucracy – venal posts, which were purchased, bequeathed and sold among the nobility.
  • Capable of being bought (of a person); willing to take bribes.
  • Corrupt, mercenary.
  • * 1785 , The Times , 9 Feb 1785, page 1, column C:
    • Though there is a disposition in mankind, to declaim against the corruption and peculation of the present times, as being more venal than formerly; yet, if we look back to different periods, we shall find statesmen and politicians, as selfish and corrupt, (...) as those who have lately figured on the political stage.
    Synonyms
    * (for sale) purchasable * (willing to take bribes) crooked
    Antonyms
    * (willing to take bribes) straight, honest, uncorrupt
    Related terms
    * venally

    Anagrams

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    vendible

    English

    Alternative forms

    * vendable

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Salable; able to be bought, sold, or traded.
  • * 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
    • But as for the multitude of Sermons ready printed and pil'd up, on every text that is not difficult, our London trading St. Thomas'' in his vestry, and adde to boot St. ''Martin'', and St. ''Hugh , have not within their hallow'd limits more vendible ware of all sorts ready made
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The regulating of prices of things vendible .

    Usage notes

    * Vendible'' indicates that something can be sold, whereas ''marketable signifies that it is proper or fit to be sold, according to regulations and customs.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything that can be bought and sold.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 12, author=, title=Americans Living in a Material World, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=One thing for sure, with the way the free-market purists have turned everything from political representation to health care to spiritual redemption into mere vendibles , they won’t be pleased with him for pushing this particular line of inquiry. }} ----