whetting in English

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1. While all these words mean "agreeable or pleasant especially to the sense of taste," Appetizing suggests a whetting of the appetite and applies to aroma and appearance as well as taste.

2. Already "blinded with the veil of jealousy," as the narrator in La Prima Parte de le Novelle del Bandello Captiously remarks of his protagonist, Timbreo, (22) the deceived lovers in these narratives find a correlative for their blindness in the opacity of narrative itself, in its ability to filter data and conceal under the very pretext of revealing, whetting the lover's voyeurism while impairing his physical--and …