avengingly
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avengingly (comparative more avengingly, superlative most avengingly)
- So as to avenge.
- 1764, anonymous author, “The Fair Penitant”, in The Gentleman’s Magazine[1], volume 34, page 540:
- In mercy ye skies to my woes,
Let your thunders avengingly roll,
And death kindly hush to repose
The Etna that bursts on my soul.
- 1852, Wilkie Collins, chapter 8, in Basil[2], volume 1, London: Richard Bentley, page 139:
- The remembrance of the engagement that I had broken came back on me avengingly […]
- 1961, Joseph Heller, chapter 19, in Catch-22[3], New York: Dell, published 1962, page 196:
- His cheeks grew tight with fury at the thought that he had just been duped into humiliation by a man who was almost the same age as he was and still only a captain, and he swung upon the chaplain avengingly with a look of such murderous antagonism that the chaplain began to tremble.