Complete Definition of "avengeress"

English
Noun
avengeress
#(Rare): A female avenger.
#*RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene, III-viii - That cruell Queene avengeresse
#*2004: w:Brian P. Levack, The Witchcraft Sourcebook, p. 323 - Here you see the torch of Althaea, the avengeress; she was a good sister, but a bad mother.

References
R:Webster 1913
R:Century 1914

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