Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Avenging; executing vengeance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Vengeful.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
vengeful
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Examples
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Trailing fingers are terminals which ignite living flames, and the propeller of the little boat creates an avengeful commotion of light which trails far astern.
Tropic Days 2003
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And if he does believe it, is he not aware that he is propagating a pernicious myth of an avengeful Christian stereotype, that is as abhorrent as any other religious or racial stereotype?
'The Incomprehensible Holocaust': An Exchange Hatton, Maurice 1990
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Trailing fingers are terminals which ignite living flames, and the propeller of the little boat creates an avengeful commotion of light which trails far astern.
Tropic Days 1887
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What will be his anguish, should you fall into the hands of the furious man whose love you have rejected; when it will no longer be in the power of a parent to preserve your person from the outrages of his eager and avengeful passion!
The Scottish Chiefs 1875
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This, to us, was a moment fraught with extreme peril — not knowing friend from foe, and instantly apprehensive of the knives and arrows of the avengeful throng.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841
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What will be his anguish, should you fall into the hands of the furious man whose love you have rejected; when it will no longer be in the power of a parent to preserve your person from the outrages of his eager and avengeful passion!
The Scottish Chiefs Jane Porter 1813
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Finally it arrived last Friday, the week after the avengeful, Jos massacre.
Vanguard alexsamade 2010
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The author went from from a condemning avengeful God to a milch toast, permissive parent who forgives all offenses
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I arouse the indolent, dissipate the winds, and appease the avengeful. "
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884 Various
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