avengingly

avengingly

English

Etymology

avenging +‎ -ly

Adverb

avengingly (comparative more avengingly, superlative most avengingly)

1. So as to avenge.
   • 1764, anonymous, “The Fair Penitant,” The Gentleman’s Magazine, Volume 34, p. 540,

     In mercy ye skies to my woes,

     Let your thunders avengingly roll,

     And death kindly hush to repose

     The Etna that bursts on my soul.

   • 1852, Wilkie Collins, Basil, London: Richard Bentley, Volume 1, Chapter 8, p. 139,

     The remembrance of the engagement that I had broken came back on me avengingly […]

   • 1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, New York: Dell, 1962, Chapter 19, p. 196,

     His cheeks grew tight with fury at the thought that he had just been duped into humiliation by a man who was almost the same age as he was and still only a captain, and he swung upon the chaplain avengingly with a look of such murderous antagonism that the chaplain began to tremble.