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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Avenging; executing vengeance.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. obsolete vengeful

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. obsolete Vengeful.

Examples

  • “Trailing fingers are terminals which ignite living flames, and the propeller of the little boat creates an avengeful commotion of light which trails far astern.”

    Tropic Days

  • “And if he does believe it, is he not aware that he is propagating a pernicious myth of an avengeful Christian stereotype, that is as abhorrent as any other religious or racial stereotype?”

    'The Incomprehensible Holocaust': An Exchange

  • “What will be his anguish, should you fall into the hands of the furious man whose love you have rejected; when it will no longer be in the power of a parent to preserve your person from the outrages of his eager and avengeful passion!”

    The Scottish Chiefs

  • “This, to us, was a moment fraught with extreme peril — not knowing friend from foe, and instantly apprehensive of the knives and arrows of the avengeful throng.”

    ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE

  • “Finally it arrived last Friday, the week after the avengeful, Jos massacre.”

    Vanguard

  • “The author went from from a condemning avengeful God to a milch toast, permissive parent who forgives all offenses”

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  • “I arouse the indolent, dissipate the winds, and appease the avengeful. ”

    The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884

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