English

Noun

avengeress ‎(plural avengeresses)

1. (rare) A female avenger.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III-viii - That cruell Queene avengeresse
   • 2004: 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

• avengeress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1914

Anagrams

• nerve gases