a. [f. AVENGE sb. + -FUL.] Full of vengeance, vengeance-taking.
1591. Spenser, Tears of Muses, 8. Ioues auengefull wrath.
1649. trans. Alcoran, 73. God will be avenged on him, he is omnipotent, and avengefull.
1763. Churchill, Duellist, I. 95. Fearing his avengeful rod.
1841. D’Israeli, Amen. Lit., I. 19. His avengeful queen cast the mother … into the river.
