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- noun Plural form of
revenger .
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Examples
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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.
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In the case of murder; the revenge cannot indemnify the bereived and it grievously assaults the revengers soul.
Am I bovvered ? Newmania 2007
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son.
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God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son.
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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
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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.
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