avengement
English
Etymology
avenge + -ment
Noun
avengement (countable and uncountable, plural avengements)
- (rare) The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken.
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, Muiopotmos - Nought may thee save from heavens avengement.
- 1649, John Milton. Eikonoklastes - God's avengement of his repulse at Hull
- 1843: Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XIV, Henry of Essex - Of St. Edmund’s fearful avengements have they not the remarkablest instance still before their eyes?
Synonyms
- avengeance, vengeance
References
- avengement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1914