Definition of "avengement"

avengement

noun
countable and uncountable, plural avengements
1. (rare) The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken.
  Quotations
  Nought may thee save from heavens avengement.
  1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Muiopotmos, or The Fate of the Butterflie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […]
  God's avengement of his repulse at Hull
  1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […]
  Of St. Edmund’s fearful avengements have they not the remarkablest instance still before their eyes?
  1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XIV, Henry of Essex”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, book II (The Ancient Monk)