revengeance

English

Etymology

From revenge +‎ vengeance. Etymons with French revengance.

Noun

revengeance (countable and uncountable, plural revengeances)

1. (now rare and nonstandard, sometimes humorous) Vengeance; revenge.
   • 2018, Best Tardy, Beware the Stars, →ISBN, page 480:

     And if you want to sing a mocking, dark, moralistic song...well, that's just the icing on the cake. It's their just desserts, really. “And those, my protégé, are my three revengeances.”

Further reading

• “revengeance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.