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Vengeance   /vˈɛndʒəns/   Listen
noun
Vengeance  n.  
1.
Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge. "To me belongeth vengeance and recompense." "To execute fierce vengeance on his foes."
2.
Harm; mischief. (Obs.)
What a vengeance, or What the vengeance, what! emphatically. (Obs.) "But what a vengeance makes thee fly!" "What the vengeance! Could he not speak 'em fair?"
With a vengeance,
(a)
with great violence; as, to strike with a vengeance. (Colloq.)
(b)
with even greater intensity; as, to return one's insult with a vengeance.





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"Vengeance" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mosely, who instantly formed a plan which would gratify his love of vengeance and secure him the coveted horses at one and the same time—"I reckon I know them only too well. They stole those mustangs from me and my friend a week ago. I thought ...
— Ben's Nugget - A Boy's Search For Fortune • Horatio, Jr. Alger
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... was as if he had found himself suddenly confronted by a bottomless abyss. He shrank back from it. He could not face the thought in his own mind. Waterman! It was Dan Waterman! It was something which he had planned! It was the vengeance that he had threatened! He had been all this time plotting it, setting his ...
— The Moneychangers • Upton Sinclair
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... ever it lies in my power I will be revenged on him. I will let you know, Mr. Thrasher, with a vengeance, that people's bones are not to be broken for nothing! Though I am but a servant, yet I am a man of honour. After having been in your service for four years you shall not pay me with a switch, nor affront me in so sensible a part as my shoulders! I tell you once ...
— The Blunderer • Moliere
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... accountant and the authorities that the directors had conveyed to their wives and friends enormous sums which ought to be seized without delay. The air grew thick with upbraidings, complaints, cries for vengeance, till the place reeked with sordid passions. Through all this ignoble storm the Drumtochty men sat silent, amazed, disgusted, till at last the Doctor rose, and such authority was in his very appearance that with his first words he obtained ...
— Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers • Ian Maclaren
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... any[24]." What proof could be more exact, what better example could be given of the methods of concomitant variations? It is precisely the same logical process which induces the savage to wreak his vengeance by melting a waxen image of his enemy, and the farmer to predict a change of weather ...
— John Lyly • John Dover Wilson
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