Obs. rare. [a. OF. vengeresse: cf. prec. and -ESS.] A female avenger.
In quot. c. 1450 as the name of a spear.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., III. met. xii. (1868), 107. Þe þre goddess s, furijs, and vengerisse of felonies.
c. 1450. Merlin, xiv. 229. This kynge alain was seke of the woundes of the spere vengeresse [F. la lance vengeresse].
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, xxvii. 99. O cruelle vltryces, wycked vengeresses, Furyes infernalle & Iusticers of helle.
1647. Hexham, I. A vengeresse, een wreeckster.
