Venal ( page 365 ).
Questions.
1. From what is venal derived, and with what meaning? mercenary? hireling? 2. How are mercenary and venal discriminated from hireling?
Examples.
The closing quarter of the nineteenth century may be termed the —— era of American politics. Never before has legislation been so universally, so unscrupulously, and unblushingly for sale.
The body of Greeks, immortalized under the name of the Ten Thousand,... though embarking on a foreign —— service, were by no means outcasts, or even men of extreme poverty.
It is not the hire, but the working only for the hire that makes the ——.