vengement

vengement

English

Etymology

From Old French vengement.

Noun

vengement (usually uncountable, plural vengements)

1. (obsolete) Retribution; vengeance. [14th-16th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.3:

     Witnesse thereof he shew'd his head there left, / And wretched life forlorne for vengement of his theft.

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Old French

Etymology

vengier +‎ -ment.

Noun

vengement m (oblique plural vengemenz or vengementz, nominative singular vengemenz or vengementz, nominative plural vengement)

1. revenge; vengeance
   • circa 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, page 68 (of the Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, line 421:

     a sun mal quert tel vengement

     for his ill, he was seeking vengeance

Synonyms

• venjance