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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
avenge .
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Examples
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O God, who avengest me, and subduest the people under me, my deliverer from my enraged enemies.
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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, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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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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O God, who avengest me, and subduest the people under me, my deliverer from my enraged enemies.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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And S. Vincent said: What sayest thou, Dacian? thou thyself avengest me of my torments.
The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900
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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!
Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. John Morley 1880
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