venger en · NOUN
Etymology
From Middle English venger, vengere, vengeour, vengeur, from Old French vengeor, vengeur. By surface analysis, venge + -er.
Meanings
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(alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of avenger.
alt of avenger
His bleeding hart is in the vengers hand, / VVho ſtreight him rent in thouſand peeces ſmall, […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 37:And the hand of the venger shall never be stayed / Till his race, faith, and speech are a dream of the past
1891, Rudyard Kipling, The Mutiny of the Mavericks:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| vengers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |