Also 5–7 au-, 6 adv-. [a. OF. avengement, f. avengier: see AVENGE v. and -MENT.] Infliction of retributive punishment, exaction of satisfaction, vengeance.
1494. Fabyan, cl. (R.). In auengement of his sayd lordes deth.
1535. Goodly Primer (1848), 64. Drawn to … avengement, wrath, or such other vices.
1670. Milton, Hist. Eng., IV. (1851), 167. Thir full avengement upon Ecfrid.
1795. T. Taylor, Apuleius (1822), 212. He … enjoyed the most grateful avengement of corrupted nuptials.
1826. E. Irving, Babylon, II. 319. The Lord, in all his avengements, hath … an eye to … the reformation of the wicked.
