vengement

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noun

Retribution; vengeance.

OriginOld French vengement →
First used 14th–16th c.Scrabble 15
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Meanings

nounvengement (usually uncountable, plural vengements)

plural vengements

  1. obsoleteuncountableusuallyRetribution; vengeance.First known use 14th–16th c.

    Witnesse thereof he shew'd his head there left, / And wretched life forlorne for vengement of his theft.

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Old Frenchvengement
  2. Englishvengement

From Old French vengement.

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