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avengeress en · NOUN

Etymology

From avenger + -ess. Compare Middle English vengeresses pl, vengerisse pl, vengerousses pl, veniouresse, veynjowresse, from Anglo-Norman vengeresse, vengerresse.

Meanings

1. (rare) A female avenger.
   • That cruell Queene avengeresse 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
   • Here you see the torch of Althaea, the avengeress; she was a good sister, but a bad mother. 2004, Brian P. Levack, The Witchcraft Sourcebook, page 323:

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