revengeance
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From revenge + vengeance. Etymons with French revengance.
Noun
[edit]revengeance (countable and uncountable, plural revengeances)
- (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
[edit]- “revengeance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.