revengement

English

Etymology

From revenge +‎ -ment, or re- +‎ vengement.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈvɛndʒmənt/

Noun

revengement (countable and uncountable, plural revengements)

1. Revenge.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     With that he drives at them with dreadfull might, / Both in remembrance of his friends late harme, / And in revengement of his owne despight […]

References

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