avengement

plural avengements

1. countablerareuncountableThe inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken.

   God's avengement of his repulse at Hull

   1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC

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   Nought may thee save from heavens avengement.

   1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Muiopotmos, or The Fate of the Butterflie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC

   Of St. Edmund’s fearful avengements have they not the remarkablest instance still before their eyes?

   1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XIV, Henry of Essex”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk)

   Synonyms: avengeance, vengeance