ULTION NOUN vengeance, revenge, avengement - 1575 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin ultiōn-, ultio (vengeance, revenge), from the stem of ulciscī (to avenge) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1575 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Of genesis in the four and threttie Cheptour we reid greit furiositie Of slauchter maid be Leui and Simeon, Becaus Sichem the prince of that countre, Had reft Dina thair sister fair and fre: And hir stuprat, quhairfoir the greit vltioun First come on him and his pepill Ilkone, His kin and freindis, and Father but mercie was put at schort till exterminioun..." From: Ane Treatise Callit the Court of Venus - John Rolland
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