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† ˈvengeress Obs. rare.
[a. OF. vengeresse: cf. prec. and -ess.]
A female avenger.
In quot. c 1450 as the name of a spear.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iii. met. xii. (1868) 107 Þe þre goddess s, furijs, and vengerisse of felonies. c1450Merlin xiv. 229 This kynge alain was seke of the woundes of the spere vengeresse [F. la lance vengeresse]. 1490Caxton Eneydos xxvii. 99 O cruelle vltryces, wycked vengeresses, Furyes infernalle & Iusticers of helle. 1647Hexham i, A vengeresse, een wreeckster. |