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Webster 1913 Edition


Vengement

Venge′ment

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Noun.
[OF.
vengement
.]
Avengement; penal retribution; vengeance.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Vengement

VENGEMENT

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Noun.
venj'ment. Avengement; penal retribution. [Avengement is generally used.]

Definition 2024


vengement

vengement

English

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.

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 2-7453-0520-4), line 421:
      a sun mal quert tel vengement
      for his ill, he was seeking vengeance

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