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VENGEANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life
Example:
the swiftness of divine retribution
Synonyms:
payback; retribution; vengeance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("vengeance" is a kind of...):
retaliation; revenge (action taken in return for an injury or offense)
Context examples:
My mother dead tells the tale of his wrong; a Russian, dead with a spear through breast and back, tells the tale of the vengeance of Kinoos.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Had the half-breed simply wrought his vengeance and then escaped, all might have been well with him.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“You will restrain any demonstrative championship or vengeance in this place, of course, Mr. Copperfield?” said she, looking over her shoulder at me with the same expression.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Then the peasants were vexed that the small peasant should have thus outwitted them, wanted to take vengeance on him, and accused him of this treachery before the mayor.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
"Oh dear, we are growing up with a vengeance. Here's Meg married and a mamma, Amy flourishing away at Paris, and Beth in love. I'm the only one that has sense enough to keep out of mischief."
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
What smouldering fire of vengeance had suddenly sprung into flame in this passionate Celtic woman’s soul when she saw the man who had wronged her—wronged her, perhaps, far more than we suspected—in her power?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Had I been recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an hour’s purchase; for I have used it before now for my own purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have vengeance upon me.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You certainly short-cut with a vengeance.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“There spoke your true self,” said he; “and you will find more pleasure in such forgiveness than in any vengeance.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
