Word Meanings - VENGEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Vindictive; retributive; revengeful. "Vengeful ire." Milton. -- Venge"ful*ly, adv.

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• VENGE
  To avenge; to punish; to revenge. See Avenge, and Revenge. Chaucer. "To venge me, as I may." Shak.
• 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.
• VENGEMENT
  Avengement; penal retribution; vengeance. Spenser.
• VENGEABLE
  Revengeful; deserving revenge. Spenser. -- Venge"a*bly, adv.
• RETRIBUTIVE; RETRIBUTORY
  Of or pertaining to retribution; of the nature of retribution; involving retribution or repayment; as, retributive justice; retributory comforts.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• VENGER
  An avenger. Spenser.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• VENGEFUL
  Vindictive; retributive; revengeful. "Vengeful ire." Milton. -- Venge"ful*ly, adv.
• VENGEANCELY
  Extremely; excessively. "He loves that vengeancely." Beau. & Fl.
• 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
• VINDICTIVE
  1. Disposed to revenge; prompted or characterized by revenge; revengeful. I am vindictive enough to repel force by force. Dryden. 2. Punitive. Vindictive damages. See under Damage, n. -- Vin*dic"tive*ly, adv. -- Vin*dic"tive*ness, n.
• AVENGERESS
  A female avenger. Spenser.
• AVENGEMENT
  The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken. Milton.
• REVENGEMENT
  Revenge. He 'll breed revengement and a scourge for me. Shak.
• REVENGEABLE
  Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong. Warner.
• 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
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• REVENGEANCE
  Vengeance; revenge.
• AVENGEFUL
  Vengeful. Spenser.
• SCAVENGER
  A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the fifth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health. Scavenger beetle , any beetle
• REVENGER
  One who revenges. Shak.