Word Meanings - VENGEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Avengement; penal retribution; vengeance. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to VENGEMENT)

• PENAL
  Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence: as: Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code. Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact
• AVENGEMENT
  The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken. Milton.
• RETRIBUTION
  1. The act of retributing; repayment. In good offices and due retributions, we may not be pinching and niggardly. Bp. Hall. 2. That which is given in repayment or compensation; return suitable to the merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly,
• PENALITY
  The quality or state of being penal; lability to punishment. Sir T. Browne.
• PENALLY
  In a penal manner.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• PENALIZE
  To put a penalty on. See Penalty, 3. (more info) 1. To make penal.
• PENALTY
  1. Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass. Death is the penalty imposed. Milton. 2. The suffering,
• 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
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• REVENGEANCE
  Vengeance; revenge.
• AVENGEANCE
  Vengeance.