English

Noun

avengement ‎(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