vengement
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French vengement.
Noun[edit]
vengement (usually uncountable, plural vengements)
- (obsolete) Retribution; vengeance. [14th–16th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Witnesse thereof he shew'd his head there left, / And wretched life forlorne for vengement of his theft.
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
vengement oblique singular, m (oblique plural vengemenz or vengementz, nominative singular vengemenz or vengementz, nominative plural vengement)
Synonyms[edit]
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