Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Revenge; retaliation for an injury.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Revenge.

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  • noun Revenge.

Etymologies

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From revenge +‎ -ment, or re- +‎ vengement.

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Examples

  • I know not whether God will have it so For some displeasing service I have done, That in His secret doom out of my blood He'll breed revengement and a scourge for me; But thou dost in thy passages of life Make me believe that thou art only marked For the hot vengeance and the rod of heaven To punish my mistreadings.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • Cardinal Wolsey waxed so woe therewith, that he studied to invent all ways of revengement of his grief against the Emperor, which as it was the beginning of a lamentable tragedy, so some part thereof not impertinent to my present purpose I reckoned requisite here to put in remembrance.

    Paras. 1-4 1909

  • I know you will kill me, but what will that avail you, when you shall never live in safety for fear of revengement of my kindred?

    Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906

  • And revengement I will have, if body and soul I lose.

    A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

  • Other things they commit to God, unto whom they leave all revengement.

    Sermons on the Card Hugh Latimer 1858

  • Doom-day rose and he gathered together his Amalekites and choosing out five hundred cavaliers, each fifty ells high, [FN#326] set out with them in quest of blood-revengement for his brother.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Besides, God hath taken the revengement of the blood of his servants into his own hand, and will execute his wrath himself.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

  • Let us be glad and joyous in our innocency and uprightness; the Lord shall reward them that persecute us; let us refer all revengement to him.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658

  • For that so sone as any in thesame countrie is offended, he resorteth by and by to his capitain to make complaint, who for to maintain his reputacion, comforteth hym to revengement not to peace.

    Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

  • Now the reason of this was that when Gharib put Al – Hamal and his men to the sword, the rest fled and ceased not flying till they reached their lord’s brother and told him what had happened, whereat his Doom-day rose and he gathered together his Amalekites and choosing out five hundred cavaliers, each fifty ells high,326 set out with them in quest of blood-revengement for his brother.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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