Dictionary

avengingly en · ADV

Etymology

From avenging + -ly.

Meanings

1. So as to avenge.
   • In mercy ye skies to my woes, Let your thunders avengingly roll, And death kindly hush to repose The Etna that bursts on my soul. 1764, anonymous author, “The Fair Penitant”, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, volume 34, page 540:
   • The remembrance of the engagement that I had broken came back on me avengingly […] 1852, Wilkie Collins, chapter 8, in Basil, volume 1, London: Richard Bentley, page 139:
   • His cheeks grew tight with fury at the thought that he had just been duped into humiliation by a man who was almost the same age as he was and still only a captain, and he swung upon the chaplain avengingly with a look of such murderous antagonism that the chaplain began to tremble. 1961, Joseph Heller, chapter 19, in Catch-22, New York: Dell, published 1962, page 196:

Forms