Definitions
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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
avenge .
Etymologies
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avenge + -est
Examples
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O God, who avengest me, and subduest the people under me, my deliverer from my enraged enemies.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision
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And S. Vincent said: What sayest thou, Dacian? thou thyself avengest me of my torments.
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Stay of the unhappy and the oppressed, thou who art just, thou who art incorruptible, who avengest the good man, who unmaskest the hypocrite, who draggest down the tyrant, may thy sure faith, thy consoling faith, never, never abandon me!
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