revengement
English
Etymology
From revenge + -ment, or re- + vengement.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈvɛndʒmənt/
Noun
revengement (countable and uncountable, plural revengements)
- Revenge.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.4:
- With that he drives at them with dreadfull might, / Both in remembrance of his friends late harme, / And in revengement of his owne despight […]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.4:
References
- revengement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.