Definition of Avengeful

1. a. Vengeful.

Definition of Avengeful

1. Adjective. (obsolete) vengeful ¹

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Definition of Avengeful

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Avengeful

avels
aven
avena
avenaceous
avenacinase
avenacosidase
avenage
avenasterol
avenasterols
avener
aveners
avenge
avengeance
avengeaunce
avenged
avengeful (current term)
avengement
avengements
avenger
avengeress
avengeresses
avengers
avenges
avengest
avengeth
avenging
aveniform
avenin
avenins
avenious

Literary usage of Avengeful

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Discord, dread monster, deaf to human woe, To her own subjects an avengeful foe, Bloody, impetuous, eager to destroy, In man's misfortune founds her hateful ..."

2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... Who, fearing his avengeful rod, Dost wish not to believe a God; Whose hope is founded on a plan, Which should distract the soul of man, ..."

3. France by Morgan (Sydney), Thomas Charles Morgan (1817)
"The avengeful feelings, which rose almost beyond the tone of human vindictive- ness, pursuing the dying moments of Robespierre, " breathe a browner horror" ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1860)
"And now again revolution heaves in turbulence through- out the length and breadth of the devoted land : avengeful hate and fiery battle hold but lor tbe ..."

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