Meanings
plural vengers
- obsoleteObsolete form of avenger.
His bleeding hart is in the vengers hand, / VVho ſtreight him rent in thouſand peeces ſmall, […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 371 more example
And the hand of the venger shall never be stayed / Till his race, faith, and speech are a dream of the past
1891, Rudyard Kipling, The Mutiny of the Mavericks
Origin
- Old Frenchvengeor
- Middle Englishvenger
- Englishvenger
From Middle English venger, vengere, vengeour, vengeur, from Old French vengeor, vengeur. By surface analysis, venge + -er.
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venger. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/venger
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