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† reˈvengeance Obs.
Also 5 Sc. rewengeance, -eans(se; 5–6 revengeaunce.
[a. obs. F. revengance, -ence, etc., f. revenger to revenge. Cf. vengeance.]
Revenge, vengeance. (Common in 16th cent.)
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints i. (Peter) 410, I sall ger myn angelis tak of hym reuengeance. Ibid. vii. (James the less) 235 Ierusalem..In rewengeans dystroyt wes. c1425Wyntoun Cron. iii. ii. 467 And he prayit to God of mycht That..A rewengeansse he mycht wyn Off al his fais. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 192, I past efterwart and tuke revengeaunce thare apon. 1541R. Hyrde tr. Vives' Instr. Chr. Wom. ii. v. (1592) R ij, He..wil remember injurie longest, and seeke for vengeance most violently, nor can be content with a meane reuengeaunce. 1565Jewel Repl. Harding (1611) 373 God strooke Iulians Image from Heauen with lightning,..in token of his reuengeance. |