vengement

English edit

Etymology edit

From Old French vengement.

Noun edit

vengement (usually uncountable, plural vengements)

(obsolete) Retribution; vengeance. [14th–16th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Witnesse thereof he shew'd his head there left, / And wretched life forlorne for vengement of his theft.

Old French edit

Etymology edit

vengier +‎ -ment.

Noun edit

vengement oblique singular, m (oblique plural vengemenz or vengementz, nominative singular vengemenz or vengementz, nominative plural vengement)

revenge; vengeance
- c. 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 68, line 421:
  a sun mal quert tel vengement
  for his ill, he was seeking vengeance

Synonyms edit

venjance