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AVENGE, v.t. avenj'. [L. vindex.]

1. To take satisfaction for an injury by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on the wrong doer.

Shall not God avenge his own elect. Luke 18.

Avenge me of my adversary.

In these examples, avenge implies that the evil inflicted on the injuring party is a satisfaction or justice done to the injured, and the party vindicated is the object of the verb.

2. To take satisfaction for, by pain or punishment inflicted on the injuring party.

He will avenge the blood of his servants. Deut. 32.

Here the thing for which satisfaction is taken is the object of the verb.

3. To revenge. To avenge and revenge, radically, are synonymous. But modern usage inclines to make a valuable distinction in the use of these words, restricting avenge to the taking of just punishment, and revenge to the infliction of pain or evil, maliciously, in an illegal manner.

4. In the passive form this verb signifies to have or receive just satisfaction, by the punishment of the offender.

Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Jer. 5.



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AVENGE, v.t. avenj'. [L. vindex.]

1. To take satisfaction for an injury by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on the wrong doer.

Shall not God avenge his own elect. Luke 18.

Avenge me of my adversary.

In these examples, avenge implies that the evil inflicted on the injuring party is a satisfaction or justice done to the injured, and the party vindicated is the object of the verb.

2. To take satisfaction for, by pain or punishment inflicted on the injuring party.

He will avenge the blood of his servants. Deut. 32.

Here the thing for which satisfaction is taken is the object of the verb.

3. To revenge. To avenge and revenge, radically, are synonymous. But modern usage inclines to make a valuable distinction in the use of these words, restricting avenge to the taking of just punishment, and revenge to the infliction of pain or evil, maliciously, in an illegal manner.

4. In the passive form this verb signifies to have or receive just satisfaction, by the punishment of the offender.

Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Jer. 5.


A-VENGE, v.t. [avenj'; Fr. venger; Sp. vengar; Port. vingar; L. vindex. In Sax. winnan, to contend, to gain, to win.]

  1. To take satisfaction for an inquiry by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by indicating pain or evil on the wrong doer. Shall not God avenge his own elect? – Luke xviii. Avenge me of my adversary. – Id. ver. 3. In these examples, avenge implies that the evil inflicted on the injuring party is a satisfaction or justice done to the injured, and the party vindicated is the object of the verb.
  2. To take satisfaction for, by pain or punishment inflicted on the injuring party. He will avenge the blood of his servants. – Deut. xxxii. Here the thing for which satisfaction is taken is the object of the verb.
  3. To revenge. To avenge and revenge, radically, are synonymous. But modern usage inclines to make a valuable distinction in the use of these words, restricting avenge to the taking of just punishment, and revenge to the infliction of pain or evil, maliciously, in an illegal manner.
  4. In the passive form, this verb signifies to have or receive just satisfaction, by the punishment of the offender. Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? – Jer. v.

A*venge"
  1. To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.

    He will avenge the blood of his servants.
    Deut. xxxii. 43.

    Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones
    Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold.
    Milton.

    He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before seen.
    Macaulay.

  2. To take vengeance.

    Levit. xix. 18.
  3. Vengeance; revenge.

    [Obs.] Spenser.
  4. To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.

    [Obs.]

    Thy judgment in avenging thine enemies.
    Bp. Hall.

    Syn. -- To Avenge, Revenge. To avenge is to inflict punishment upon evil doers in behalf of ourselves, or others for whom we act; as, to avenge one's wrongs; to avenge the injuries of the suffering and innocent. It is to inflict pain for the sake of vindication, or retributive justice. To revenge is to inflict pain or injury for the indulgence of resentful and malicious feelings. The former may at times be a duty; the latter is one of the worst exhibitions of human character.

    I avenge myself upon another, or I avenge another, or I avenge a wrong. I revenge only myself, and that upon another.
    C. J. Smith.

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avenge

AVENGE, v.t. avenj'. [L. vindex.]

1. To take satisfaction for an injury by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on the wrong doer.

Shall not God avenge his own elect. Luke 18.

Avenge me of my adversary.

In these examples, avenge implies that the evil inflicted on the injuring party is a satisfaction or justice done to the injured, and the party vindicated is the object of the verb.

2. To take satisfaction for, by pain or punishment inflicted on the injuring party.

He will avenge the blood of his servants. Deut. 32.

Here the thing for which satisfaction is taken is the object of the verb.

3. To revenge. To avenge and revenge, radically, are synonymous. But modern usage inclines to make a valuable distinction in the use of these words, restricting avenge to the taking of just punishment, and revenge to the infliction of pain or evil, maliciously, in an illegal manner.

4. In the passive form this verb signifies to have or receive just satisfaction, by the punishment of the offender.

Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Jer. 5.

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