† countervengev.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To revenge, take retaliatory vengeance for.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > execute (vengeance) [verb (transitive)] > avenge (an injury or injured person)
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1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxlv. 365 [They] toke in great dispyte the takyng of the said messangers..wherfore they thought to counterueng it.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccclviii. 581 The erle gaue leue..to the knightes and squiers..to counteruenge them of their domages.
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