avenginglyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

avenging +‎ -ly

副詞

avengingly (comparative more avengingly, superlative most avengingly)

1. So as to avenge.
   • 1764, anonymous, “The Fair Penitant,” The Gentleman’s Magazine, Volume 34, p. 540,^[1]

     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, Basil, London: Richard Bentley, Volume 1, Chapter 8, p. 139,^[2]

     The remembrance of the engagement that I had broken came back on me avengingly […]

   • 1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, New York: Dell, 1962, Chapter 19, p. 196,^[3]

     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.