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Definition of Avengeful
1. a. Vengeful.
Definition of Avengeful
1. Adjective. (obsolete) vengeful ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Avengeful
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Avengeful
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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