venge

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Novelist Roald Dahl has adapted his short story William and Mary, about the eerie re venge of a browbeaten wife, as the first offering in a new series intended to exploit eccentric stories.

From Time Magazine Archive

The next year she took her re venge in Fort Lauderdale by humiliating King 6-1, 6-0.

From Time Magazine Archive

And has our shame Brought us to this, that some barbarian foe Shall venge Hesperia's wrongs ere Rome her own?

From Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan

I am not of Dr. Hickes's mind, Qu'il venge.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Swift, Jonathan

In other place also I rede, Wher that a jugge his oghne dede 2890 Ne wol noght venge of lawe broke, The king it hath himselven wroke.

From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)