单词 | venger |
释义 | vengern. An avenger. Now poetic or rhetorical. 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 a1340 R. Rolle Psalter viii. 3 Þat þou distroy the enmy & þe vengere. c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 297 He is Goddis mynystre, vengere into wraþþe to hym þat doþ evyl. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Hosea v. 13 And Effraym wente to Assur, and sente to the kyng veniour. 1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 54 And this I wyl thou know for sekyrnesse That god is wenger of wyckydnesse. 1483 Cath. Angl. 400/1 A venger, vindex, vindicator. 1526 W. Tyndale Prol. Epist. Rom. A iij Thou woldest thatt their were no..God, the auctor and vangear of the lawe. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iii. sig. C4 His bleeding hart is in the vengers hand. 1601 R. Yarington Two Lamentable Trag. sig. I I, he is well, in such a vengers handes, As will not winck at your iniquity. 1865 Reader 16 Sept. 399/2 Other champion of our cause shall come,..venger of his sire. 1881 H. Phillips tr. L. C. A. von Chamisso Faust 10 The Venger's Vengeance smites the guilty head. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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