unrevengedadj.

?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth xix. f. xxvi It greueth to recount howe vnreuenged [L. inulti] many of your defenders by them haue shamefully ben put to deth for your sake within these fyftene yeres.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) ix. xii. l. 126 Me onrevengit [L. inulto], thou sal nocht victour be, For weill I wait that sone I salbe wrokyn.

1547 J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes sig. h.viii God & his angels..will not leaue the iniury doen to hym & them, vnreuenged.

1621 R. Brathwait Natures Embassie (1877) 27 Her husbands death,..effected, but not vnreuenged.

1669 T. Shadwell Royal Shepherdess ii Neander. O Madam! your eyes will revenge your quarrels. Evadne. Or they must be unreveng'd, for you.

1735 N. Tindal tr. D. Cantemir Hist. Growth & Decay Othman Empire II. iv. 292 So great a slaughter, which the Russians had made of the Tartars, ought not to pass unrevenged.

1796 Monthly Mag. 2 449 Ampanani never bled unrevenged.

1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 66 Hoarders up of unrevenged grievances.

1895 Missionary Rev. of World Aug. 567 It has cost such men something to give up their plurality of wives, their enmities, and their unrevenged insults.

1921 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 20 327 Dagbert's successor, Sigbert, deplored the unrevenged catastrophe.

2003 J. S. Alexander Suicide Squad xlii. 411 Killing this slimeball would probably have upset my friend, who apparently has scruples about euthanasia, a hundred times more than being the unrevenged victim of assault.

?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth xxvi. f. l He wolde nat suffre their ennemy Iugurth and his conpany to depart away vnreuenged [L. inultos].

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) ix. xiii. l. 13 Nane bot a man standand ȝou aganys..Onrevengit [Ruddiman unreuengit; L. impune], sa gret occisioun..sal mak within ȝour tovn.

1539 R. Taverner Catechisme f. 14^v The Lorde woll not haue him vnreuenged that taketh the name of hys Lord God in vayne.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xxvi. 234 God, who repaieth sinne with sinne, and suffreth not such outragious wicked ones to escape vnreuenged.

1694 L. Echard tr. Plautus Amphitryon iv. viii, in tr. Plautus Comedies 59 By Heaven, this damn'd Impostor sha'n't abuse me unreveng'd, whoe'er he be.

1708 S. Ockley Conquest of Syria 104 He, being a Man of undaunted Courage and Resolution, said..that they should not take his Standard, and put his Eye out unrevenged.

1787 M. Young Antient Gaelic Poems 52 Shall we let him thus triumph over us unrevenged?

1848 Mother's Assistant 12 37 Though God suffers his people not to sin in revenging their adversaries, yet he suffers not their adversaries to sin unrevenged.

1881 Liverpool Mercury 20 Jan. 7/2 If a neighbour were to injure you, it is better he should go unrevenged.

2011 Daily News (Sri Lanka) (Nexis) 22 Apr. We committed the worst crime we could afford in history..and yet we remain unrevenged, unpunished, unharmed.

1547–8 in A. I. Cameron Sc. Corr. Mary of Lorraine (1927) 213 Or we be swa cruelly owrthrawin..we will randyr to the Twrk rathyr nor to be onrewangit.

1612 I. M. tr. Most Famous Hist. Meruine i. xi. 74 The other side lost much more, who returned to their tents discontented, because vnreuenged.

a1695 H. Wharton One & Twenty Serm. preach'd Lambeth Chapel (1698) xiii. 319 To pass by one Enemy unrevenged exposeth a Man to the insults of Enemies, to the scorn of Friends, and to renewed Wrongs.

1726 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xvi. 277 With such a foe th' unequal fight to try, Were by false courage unreveng'd to die.

1753 World 8 Nov. 272 They never suffer themselves to be affronted unrevenged.

1820 T. Hamilton tr. Antar II. ix. 50 How then shall I sleep unrevenged, whilst my sword is sharp-pointed, and its double edge is bloody.