Home › Words › V › vengementvengementvengement means retribution; vengeance.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, vengement ranks #16,749 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom Old French vengement.nounRetribution; vengeance.e.g.“Witnesse thereof he shew'd his head there left, / And wretched life forlorne for vengement of his theft.” — 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).