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vengement

vengement noun: retribution; vengeance.

Noun

vengement (usually uncountable, plural vengements)

  1. (obsolete, usually) Retribution; vengeance.
    • 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

Forms of vengement

pluralvengements

Origin of vengement

From Old French vengement.

Words formed from vengement

Questions about vengement

What does vengement mean?
Vengement means retribution; vengeance.
What part of speech is vengement?
Vengement is a noun.
What is the plural of vengement?
The plural of vengement is vengements.

Words near vengement in the dictionary

  1. vengeaunces
  2. venged
  3. vengeful
  4. vengefully
  5. vengefulness
  6. vengement
  7. vengements
  8. vengence
  9. venger
  10. vengers
  11. venges

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