avengingly

English

Etymology

avenging +‎ -ly

Adverb

avengingly (comparative more avengingly, superlative most avengingly)

  1. So as to avenge.
    • 1764, anonymous author, “The Fair Penitant”, in The Gentleman’s Magazine‎, volume 34, page 540:
      In mercy ye skies to my woes,
      Let your thunders avengingly roll,
      And death kindly hush to repose
      The Etna that bursts on my soul.
    • 1852, Wilkie Collins, chapter 8, in Basil‎, volume 1, London: Richard Bentley, page 139:
      The remembrance of the engagement that I had broken came back on me avengingly […]
    • 1961, Joseph Heller, chapter 19, in Catch-22‎, New York: Dell, published 1962, page 196:
      His cheeks grew tight with fury at the thought that he had just been duped into humiliation by a man who was almost the same age as he was and still only a captain, and he swung upon the chaplain avengingly with a look of such murderous antagonism that the chaplain began to tremble.
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