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vengeaunce

vengeaunce is the obsolete form of vengeance.

Meaning of vengeance

Noun

vengeance (countable and uncountable, plural vengeances)

  1. Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.
    • All the gods have mocked at prayer. This sin must now be punished by the vengeance of men.1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 28
  2. Desire for revenge.
    • Thereupon full of anger, full of jealousy, full of vengeance, she forms […] a scheme of retribution, […]1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC

Forms of vengeaunce

pluralvengeaunces

Questions about vengeaunce

What is vengeaunce the obsolete form of?
Vengeaunce is the obsolete form of vengeance.

Words near vengeaunce in the dictionary

  1. vengeable
  2. vengeably
  3. vengeance
  4. vengeances
  5. vengeant
  6. vengeaunce
  7. vengeaunces
  8. venged
  9. vengeful
  10. vengefully
  11. vengefulness

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