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

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)

J'ai fait ce que j'ai dû, j'ai vengé mon injure; Fais ton devoir, dit-il, et venge la nature.

From Books and Characters French and English by Strachey, Giles Lytton

Then, losell Locrine, look unto thy self, Thrasimachus will venge this injury.

From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)