Word Meanings - REVENGING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Executing revenge; revengeful. -- Re*ven"ging*ly, adv. Shak.

Related words: (words related to REVENGING)

• EXECUTOR
  1. One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness. Shak. 2. An executioner. Delivering o'er to executors pa . . . The lazy, yawning drone. Shak. authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.
• EXECUTORIAL
  Of or pertaining to an executive.
• EXECUTE
  To perform, as a piece of music, either on an instrument or with the voice; as, to execute a difficult part brilliantly. Syn. -- To accomplish; effect; fulfill; achieve; consummate; finish; complete. See Accomplish. (more info) to the end, pursue;
• EXECUTIONER
  1. One who executes; an executer. Bacon. 2. One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.
• REVENGEFUL
  Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge. If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. May my hands . . . Never brandish more rebvengeful steel. Shak. Syn. -- Vindictive; vengeful; resentful; malicious.
• REVENGEMENT
  Revenge. He 'll breed revengement and a scourge for me. Shak.
• REVENGEABLE
  Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong. Warner.
• EXECUTRIX
  A woman exercising the functions of an executor.
• EXECUTABLE
  Capable of being executed; feasible; as, an executable project.
• REVENGEANCE
  Vengeance; revenge.
• EXECUTORY
  Designed to be executed or carried into effect in time to come, or to take effect on a future contingency; as, an executory devise, reminder, or estate; an executory contract. Blackstone. (more info) 1. Pertaining to administration, or putting
• EXECUTER
  One who performs or carries into effect. See Executor.
• REVENGER
  One who revenges. Shak.
• EXECUTORSHIP
  The office of an executor.
• EXECUTRESS
  An executrix.
• EXECUTIVELY
  In the way of executing or performing.
• EXECUTANT
  One who executes or performs; esp., a performer on a musical instrument. Great executants on the organ. De Quincey.
• REVENGELESS
  Unrevenged. Marston.
• REVENGE
  1. The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil. Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is even with his enemy; but in passing it over he is superior. Bacon. 2. The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil
• EXECUTION
  1. The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc. The excellence of the subject contributed much to the happiness of the execution. Dryden.
• COEXECUTOR
  A joint executor.
• MALEXECUTION
  Bad execution. D. Webster.
• EXECUTIVE
  Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of the laws or the conduct of affairs; as, executive power or authority; executive duties, officer,
• COEXECUTRIX
  A joint executrix.
• NONEXECUTION
  Neglect or failure of execution; nonperformance.