Word Meanings - VENGEABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Revengeful; deserving revenge. Spenser. -- Venge"a*bly, adv.

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• DESERVEDNESS
  Meritoriousness.
• DESERVE
  1. To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise. God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. Job xi. 6. John
• VENGE
  To avenge; to punish; to revenge. See Avenge, and Revenge. Chaucer. "To venge me, as I may." Shak.
• DESERVEDLY
  According to desert ; justly.
• REVENGEFUL
  Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge. If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. May my hands . . . Never brandish more rebvengeful steel. Shak. Syn. -- Vindictive; vengeful; resentful; malicious.
• DESERVING
  Desert; merit. A person of great deservings from the republic. Swift.
• REVENGEMENT
  Revenge. He 'll breed revengement and a scourge for me. Shak.
• REVENGEABLE
  Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong. Warner.
• VENGEMENT
  Avengement; penal retribution; vengeance. Spenser.
• VENGEABLE
  Revengeful; deserving revenge. Spenser. -- Venge"a*bly, adv.
• REVENGEANCE
  Vengeance; revenge.
• VENGER
  An avenger. Spenser.
• REVENGER
  One who revenges. Shak.
• VENGEFUL
  Vindictive; retributive; revengeful. "Vengeful ire." Milton. -- Venge"ful*ly, adv.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• DESERVER
  One who deserves.
• VENGEANCELY
  Extremely; excessively. "He loves that vengeancely." Beau. & Fl.
• REVENGELESS
  Unrevenged. Marston.
• REVENGE
  1. The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil. Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is even with his enemy; but in passing it over he is superior. Bacon. 2. The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil
• VENGEANCE
  vindicare to lay claim to, defend, avenge, fr. vindex a claimant, defender, avenger, the first part of which is of uncertain origin, and the last part akin to dicere to say. See Diction, and cf. Avenge, 1. Punishment inflicted in return for an
• AVENGERESS
  A female avenger. Spenser.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• UNDESERVER
  One of no merit; one who is nor deserving or worthy. Shak.
• UNDESERVE
  To fail to deserve. Milton.
• AVENGEMENT
  The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken. Milton.
• AVENGER
  1. One who avenges or vindicates; as, an avenger of blood. 2. One who takes vengeance. Milton.
• AVENGE
  1. To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer. He will avenge the blood of his servants. Deut. xxxii. 43. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose
• AVENGEFUL
  Vengeful. Spenser.