单词 | revenger |
释义 | revengern. A person who takes revenge; an avenger.Common in the 16th and 17th centuries. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > retributive punishment > [noun] > one who inflicts wreakera1300 wrechera1325 vengera1340 vengesour1382 avenger1388 vengeancerc1440 revengera1522 nemesis1542 alastor1603 vindicator1827 retributor1844 the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > [noun] > avenger of injured or injury wreakera1300 wrechera1325 vengera1340 vengesour1382 vengeancerc1440 revengera1522 avenger1535 vindicator1827 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iv. xi. l. 85 Of our levingis sum revengar [1553 revengear] mot spryng. a1540 R. Barnes Lawfull for Priestes to marry Wiues in W. Tyndale et al. Wks. (1573) ii. 326/2 Let not men doubt..that God wyll bee a reuenger of such wrongfull violence. 1567 G. Turberville tr. A. Sani di Cure Aunsweres in tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. 160v For this rape there arre Reuenger Greekes with wreakfull ships. 1611 C. Tourneur Atheist's Trag. (new ed.) v. sig. L3 Whose gracious motiues made me still forbeare To be mine owne Reuenger. 1693 J. Dryden in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires xiv. 288 Since Mars, whom we the great Revenger call, Lost his own Helmet. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. i. 11 I will face them all: But not as a revenger, if they provoke me not too much. 1775 J. W. Fletcher in R. Hill & J. W. Fletcher Fictitious & Genuine Creed Pref. p. viii God, as a righteous revenger of prophaneness, may justly suffer the fifty-pence-debtor to fall in the battle. 1865 Reader 30 Sept. 365/3 Panderers to the envy or revengers of the fear of deceased greatness. 1899 E. Phillpotts Human Boy 193 A terrible revenge which doesn't come off, is pretty sickening for the revenger. 1913 J. Neil Everyday Life in Holy Land 131 In most cases the calling on the name of a powerful protector is sufficient to stay the hand of the most enraged revenger. 2005 J. Scaggs Crime Fiction i. 11 Ironically, it is in the absence of justice that the revenger pursues a course of action that is itself unjust. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1522 |
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