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revenger|rɪˈvɛndʒə(r)|
Also 6 Sc. -eoure, -ear.
[f. revenge v. + -er1. Cf. F. revancheur, † revencheur, revangeur.]
One who revenges; an avenger. (Common in 16th and 17th c.)
1513Douglas æneis iv. xi. 85 Of our levingis sum revengear mot spring. a1540Barnes Wks. (1573) 326 Let not men doubt..that God wyll bee a reuenger of such wrongfull violence. 1611Tourneur Ath. Trag. v. ii, Whose gracious motiues made me still forbeare To be mine owne Revenger. 1693Dryden Juvenal xiv. (1697) 361 Since Mars, whom we the great Revenger call, Lost his own Helmet. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) II. 360, I will face them all; but not as a revenger, if they provoke me not too much. 1865Reader 30 Sept. 365/3 Panderers to the envy or revengers of the fear of deceased greatness. 1899E. Phillpotts Human Boy 193 A terrible revenge which doesn't come off, is pretty sickening for the revenger.
attrib.1567Turberv. Ovid's Ep. 160 b, For this rape there arre Revenger Greekes, with wreakfull ships. |