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  • noun Plural form of revenger.

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Examples

  • I think only Feingold in the Senate was willing to face the wrath of the revengers but it does not make the mob any more justified in burning the Constitution.

    White House Attacks Hillary Campaign 2009

  • In the case of murder; the revenge cannot indemnify the bereived and it grievously assaults the revengers soul.

    Am I bovvered ? Newmania 2007

  • Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son.

    2 Samuel 14. 1999

  • And if the man has been murdered his closest relative takes ascetic vows and pursues the murderer until the blood has been avenged by blood; whereupon it is customary to compose a poem of celebration, but few revengers are gifted in rhyme.

    The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

  • God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son.

    The Bible, King James version, Book 10: 2 Samuel Anonymous

  • God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son.

    New Etext of Bible [King James Version]

  • Here a magic bed makes him invisible: though the whole castle, including the very room, is ransacked by the dead knight's people and would-be revengers, at the bidding of his widow.

    The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

  • And following this directly we meet those mandates of public justice, which gleam before us in the 13th chapter of the same epistle; which represent the rulers of nations as ordained of God to be a terror to all evil-doers; revengers to execute wrath upon all who transgress their authority.

    Personal Forgiveness and Public Justice 1865

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