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avengeress

noun

Etymology

From avenger + -ess. Compare Middle English vengeresses pl, vengerisse pl, vengerousses pl, veniouresse, veynjowresse, from Anglo-Norman vengeresse, vengerresse.

  1. inherited from avengere
  2. suffixed as avengeress — “avenger + ess”

Definitions

  1. A female avenger.

    • That cruell Queene avengeresse
    • Here you see the torch of Althaea, the avengeress; she was a good sister, but a bad mother.

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