with a vengeance
prep_phraseDefinitions
With an intense motivation
With an intense motivation; in an extreme, intense, or violent manner.
- With which intolerable pains if the party shriek or cry out, they roar out as loud to him to confess the truth, or else he shall come down with a vengeance.
- Yes, egad, they are tenacious of reputation with a vengeance, for they don't choose anybody should have a character but themselves!
- It is said, that in the first representation of the Furies of Eschylus, the horror of the spectacle was so great, that several women miscarried; which was indeed pathos with a vengeance.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for with a vengeance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA