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单词 avengement
释义

avengement

English

Etymology

avenge + -ment

Noun

avengement (countable and uncountable, plural avengements)

  1. (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
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