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vengeance

noun
/ˈvɛnˌd͡ʒəns/

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman vengeaunce, from Old French vengeance, venjance, from vengier (“to avenge”). Analysable as venge + -ance.

  1. derived from vindicare
  2. derived from venger
  3. inherited from vengen
  4. suffixed as vengeance — “venge + ance”

Definitions

  1. Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.

    • All the gods have mocked at prayer. This sin must now be punished by the vengeance of men.

  2. Desire for revenge.

    • Thereupon full of anger, full of jealousy, full of vengeance, she forms […] a scheme of retribution, […]
    • If her husband was all forgiveness, asking the bands to play “Dixie,” she was full of vengeance […]
    • Are they full of vengeance[?], because they say that people with vengeance in their hearts must dig two graves, one for their enemy and the other for themselves.

The neighborhood

Derived

belly vengeance, pinch-belly vengeance, whip-belly vengeance, whistle-belly vengeance, with a vengeance

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA