Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not disposed to revenge.

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  • adjective Not revengeful.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ revengeful

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Examples

  • Had it not been for this kindly, unrevengeful soul, Vital's inner man would have been in as beggarly a condition at the conclusion of the meal as at the beginning.

    A Lover in Homespun And Other Stories 1901

  • They are kind-hearted, generous to the distressed, obliging, unrevengeful.

    Our Brother in Black: His Freedom and His Future Atticus Greene 1881

  • Their love is intense, but undemonstrative; their hatred implacable, but unrevengeful, -- too proud to revenge, too galled to pardon.

    What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • She recognised that all-pervading indomitable pride, which, interwoven with his sense of honour, became relentless as it was unrevengeful.

    What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Their love is intense, but undemonstrative; their hatred implacable, but unrevengeful, -- too proud to revenge, too galled to pardon.

    What Will He Do with It? — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • She recognised that all-pervading indomitable pride, which, interwoven with his sense of honour, became relentless as it was unrevengeful.

    What Will He Do with It? — Volume 09 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Even those with whom we cannot live intimately and familiarly, by reason of distance in degree or profession, yet we must with such live peaceably; that is, we must be harmless and inoffensive, not giving others occasion to quarrel with us; and we must be gall-less and unrevengeful, not taking occasion to quarrel with them.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

  • a solemn comment upon their peaceful and unrevengeful natures, that two hundred settlers from Hew England remained unmolested upon their lands, and that the descendants of those New England settlers now occupy them.

    Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

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