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venger|ˈvɛndʒə(r)|
Forms: 4–5 veniour, -iere, vengere, 5– venger (5 wen-), 6 vengear (van-).
[a. AF. or OF. *vengeour (vangeor, vencheur, F. vengeur) and vengiere, agent-n. f. venger venge v.]
An avenger. Now poet. or rhet.
a1340Hampole Psalter viii. 3 Þat þou distroy the enmy & þe vengere. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 297 He is Goddis mynystre, vengere into wraþþe to hym þat doþ evyl. 1382― Hosea v. 13 And Effraym wente to Assur, and sente to the kyng veniour. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 54 And this I wyl thou know for sekyrnesse That god is wenger of wyckydnesse. 1483Cath. Angl. 400/1 A venger, vindex, vindicator. 1526Tindale Prol. Ep. Romans A iij, Thou woldest thatt their were no..God, the auctor and vangear of the lawe. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. iii. 20 His bleeding hart is in the vengers hand. 1601R. Yarington Two Lament. Trag. iv. viii. in Bullen O. Pl. IV, I, he is well, in such a vengers handes, As will not winck at your iniquitie. 1865Reader 16 Sept. 399/2 Other champion of our cause shall come,..venger of his sire. 1881H. Phillips tr. Chamisso's Faust 10 The Venger's Vengeance smites the guilty head. |