vengement

English

Etymology

From Old French vengement.

Noun

vengement (usually uncountable, plural vengements)

1. (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

Etymology

vengier +‎ -ment.

Noun

vengement oblique singular, m (oblique plural vengemenz or vengementz, nominative singular vengemenz or vengementz, nominative plural vengement)

1. revenge; vengeance
   • c. 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 68, line 421:

     a sun mal quert tel vengement

     for his ill, he was seeking vengeance

Synonyms

• venjance