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avengeress

avengeress noun: a female avenger.

Noun

avengeress (plural avengeresses)

  1. (rare) A female avenger.
    • That cruell Queene avengeresse1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • 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

Forms of avengeress

pluralavengeresses

Origin of avengeress

From avenger + -ess. Compare Middle English vengeresses pl, vengerisse pl, vengerousses pl, veniouresse, veynjowresse, from Anglo-Norman vengeresse, vengerresse.

Questions about avengeress

What does avengeress mean?
Avengeress means a female avenger.
What part of speech is avengeress?
Avengeress is a noun.
What is the plural of avengeress?
The plural of avengeress is avengeresses.

Words near avengeress in the dictionary

  1. avenged
  2. avengeful
  3. avengement
  4. avengements
  5. avenger
  6. avengeress
  7. avengeresses
  8. avengers
  9. Avengers-esque
  10. Avengersesque
  11. avenges

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