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/vˈɛndʒəns/ Listen

noun

Vengeance n.

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."

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

... And that is not all, either. You know what Morillo is; he has declared a feud against this miserable, meddlesome Englishman, and not only will he gladly pay a thousand dollars for the privilege of wreaking his vengeance upon him, but the man who delivers your friend Courtenay into his hands will be free to sail the seas without molestation from Morillo as long as he lives. What think you of that, ...

— A Pirate of the Caribbees • Harry Collingwood

... matter. But you must solemnly promise to tell no one, least of all the giants, in what way you came to know what I am going to tell you, unless it be after you have left the island, for I dread Huggermugger's vengeance if he knows the ...

— The Last of the Huggermuggers • Christopher Pierce Cranch

... escaped from jail and organized an army, which in 1265 defeated the rebels, and Leicester and his son were slain. The wicked soldiery wreaked their vengeance upon the body of the fallen man, for they took great pride in their prowess as wreakers; but in the hearts of the people Leicester was regarded as ...

— Comic History of England • Bill Nye

... that one of its elements which consists of the desire to punish, is thus, I conceive, the natural feeling of retaliation or vengeance, rendered by intellect and sympathy applicable to those injuries, that is, to those hurts, which wound us through, or in common with, society at large. This sentiment, in itself, has nothing moral in it; what is moral is, the exclusive subordination of it to the social sympathies, so as to ...

— Utilitarianism • John Stuart Mill

... to them with all the gentle graces of Christian courtesy and compassion!' A monstrous mushroom that grew in the night,' would you call it? At any rate, it did not die with the dawn. 'Minerva births' these, with a vengeance. As for me, I have nothing but reverence for the mushrooms. They are among the wonders ...

— Mushrooms on the Moor • Frank Boreham

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