| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. A female avenger.[Websters]. | |
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Date "AVENGERESS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
| Note: Avengeress \A*ven"ger*ess\, noun. A female avenger. [Obsolete]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: AVENGERESS
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Noun] A female avenger.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Noun] (rare) A female avenger. 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III-viii - That cruell Queene avengeresse 2004: w:Brian P. Levack, The Witchcraft Sourcebook, p. 323 - Here you see the torch of Althaea, the avengeress; she was a good sister, but a bad mother. (references) | ||
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