revenge
verb (used with object)
to exact punishment or expiation for a wrong on behalf of, especially in a resentful or vindictive spirit.
unrevenged
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a word derived from
revenge.
Example Sentences
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You know little of the wrongs," he answered, sternly, "which for years have goaded me; and which, if unrevenged, would brand me with worse than a coward's infamy.
From The Rivals of Acadia An Old Story of the New World by Cheney, Harriet Vaughan
His next dread was that the regiment would be mustered in before the case was finished, compelling its postponement and leaving Charity to languish unrevenged.
From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert
Attends the mournful pomp along the shore; And unavailing tears profusely shed; And, unrevenged, deplored his offspring dead.
From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander
Oh, truest love! art thou forlorn, And unrevenged?
From The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
Ev'n as I thought, some poor unhappy wretch, By man wrong'd, wretched, unrevenged, as I!
From Life Is a Dream by FitzGerald, Edward
