revenger
- a word derived from revenge.
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
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
The ghost that interrupts the banquet is no shrieking revenger, hardly more than a hallucination of the murderer.
From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.
