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Avenger   /əvˈɛndʒər/   Listen
noun
Avenger  n.  
1.
One who avenges or vindicates; as, an avenger of blood.
2.
One who takes vengeance. (Obs.)





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"Avenger" Quotes from Famous Books



... bequeaths,— That, disobedient, proud, rebellious, he, Faithful to Ahab's blood received from me, To his grandfather, to his father, like, Abhorrent heir of David, down may strike Thy worship and thy fane, avenger fell Of Athaliah, ...
— Classic French Course in English • William Cleaver Wilkinson
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... shall be the logos of Heraclitus with the superadded authority of the Hebrew high priest. You may recall the fact that I greatly admire the Essenes and their system. My deity is a pure essence; not Jehovah the protector or avenger. The logos, or mediator, I have borrowed from the writings of the Greek philosophers. This logos returns to the bosom of God after the sacrifice. Greek philosophy combined with Hebraic moral principles! Ah! it is grand synthesis; Seneca with his conception of a perfected ...
— Visionaries • James Huneker
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... the terror of the genius of evil, the swift avenger of the majesty of kings, conquering hero ...
— The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X • Imbert De Saint-Amand
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... the hero. Torn asunder were those matchless wings, and their records were scattered unnoticed. In sun and in storm they lay till the killers themselves were killed and their stronghold rifled. And none knew the fate of the peerless Bird till deep in the dust and rubbish of that pirate-nest the avenger found, among others of its kind, a silver ring, the sacred badge of the High Homer, and read upon it the pregnant inscription: "ARNAUX, ...
— Animal Heroes • Ernest Thompson Seton
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... brain had tinctured every thought with their poison of monomania, leaving him without a suspicion of his own miserable deceit. He believed that he held the imperative commission of the Deity to act as a vicegerent and an avenger. God had designated him as a prosecutor, and to-night he was summing up ...
— The Tyranny of Weakness • Charles Neville Buck
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