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English
Etymology
avenge + -ment
Noun
avengement (countable and uncountable, plural avengements)
- (rare) The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken.
1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XIV, Henry of Essex”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):Of St. Edmund’s fearful avengements have they not the remarkablest instance still before their eyes?
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References
- “avengement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “avengement”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.