Example Sentences

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Some of her colleagues, she says, classify offenders in five sometimes overlapping categories: the ex-partner, the revenger of perceived wrongs, the rejected suitor, the lonely incompetent suitor and the sexual predator.

From Scientific American • Jul. 26, 2023

Earlier, in Josey Wales, she was the young granddaughter of a woman, rescued from Comanches by the revenger Wales.

From The Guardian • Dec. 14, 2018

Reared on the rueful abstraction that revenge reaps no pleasure for the revenger, it seems lifeless.

From Time Magazine Archive

We may cheer many a saddened heart by cheerful words, and sometimes entice the young revenger to forget and forgive.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various

He is a revenger to execute wrath, not by private revenge, for that is condemned by Paul before, Rom. xi.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander