Avenge vs Avenage - What's the difference?
avenge | avenage |
To take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
* Milton
(obsolete) To take vengeance.
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(archaic) To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.
* Bishop Hall
(obsolete, legal) A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent.
As nouns the difference between avenge and avenage
is that avenge is a vengeance; a revenge while avenage is (obsolete|legal) a quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent.As a verb avenge
is to take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.avenge
English
Verb
- to avenge the murder of his brother
- Avenge , O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones / Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold.
- Thou shalt not avenge , nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
- thy judgment in avenging thine enemies