Meanings
nounavengeress (plural avengeresses)
plural avengeresses
- rareA female avenger.
That cruell Queene avengeresse
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC1 more example
Here you see the torch of Althaea, the avengeress; she was a good sister, but a bad mother.
2004, Brian P. Levack, The Witchcraft Sourcebook, page 323
Origin
From avenger + -ess. Compare Middle English vengeresses pl, vengerisse pl, vengerousses pl, veniouresse, veynjowresse, from Anglo-Norman vengeresse, vengerresse.
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