avengement

== English == === Etymology === From avenge +‎ -ment. === Noun === avengement (countable and uncountable, plural avengements) (rare) The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken. ==== Synonyms ==== avengeance, vengeance === References === “avengement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “avengement”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.