avengern.
/əˈvɛndʒə/ 1. He who avenges (the injured or the injury).
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > [noun] > avenger of injured or injury
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1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xli. B The holyone of Israel thine avenger [Wyclif aȝeen biere].
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Josh. xx. B Yf the auenger of bloude [Wyclif, blood wreker, venger] folowe vpon him.
1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero (1742) III. xi. 265 The avenger of so many treasons.
1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV cxxx. 68 Time, the avenger! unto thee I lift My hands, and eyes.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People i. §1. 2 Every freeman was his own avenger.
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society > authority > punishment > retributive punishment > [noun] > one who inflicts
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > [noun] > avenger of injured or injury > one who takes vengeance on a person
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1388 J. Wyclif Psalms viii. 3 That thou destrie the enemy and avengere [1382 veniere].
a1625 J. Boys Wks. (1630) 878 And they be called Auengers in that they persecute the friends of God.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 241 Ere this he had return'd, with fury driv'n By his Avenger . View more context for this quotation
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