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Vengeance :: Vengeance (n.) Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge..

Nemesis :: Nemesis (n.) The goddess of retribution or vengeance; hence, retributive justice personified; divine vengeance..

Wreak :: Wreak (v. t.) To execute in vengeance or passion; to inflict; to hurl or drive; as, to wreak vengeance on an enemy..

Sacred :: Sacred (a.) Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful..

Revenge :: Revenge (n.) The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.

Vengeancely :: Vengeancely (adv.) Extremely; excessively.

Visitation :: Visitation (n.) Special dispensation; communication of divine favor and goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance; retributive calamity; retribution; judgment..

Commination :: Commination (n.) A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.

Wanion :: Wanion (n.) A word of uncertain signification, used only in the phrase with a wanion, apparently equivalent to with a vengeance, with a plague, or with misfortune..

Antiphrasis :: Antiphrasis (n.) The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance.

Revengeance :: Revengeance (n.) Vengeance; revenge.

Avenge :: Avenge (v. t.) To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.

Avenge :: Avenge (v. i.) To take vengeance.

Maranatha :: Maranatha (n.) Our Lord cometh; -- an expression used by St. Paul at the conclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians (xvi. 22). This word has been used in anathematizing persons for great crimes; as much as to say, May the Lord come quickly to take vengeance of thy crimes. See Anathema maranatha, under Anathema..

Scourge :: Scourge (n.) Hence, a means of inflicting punishment, vengeance, or suffering; an infliction of affliction; a punishment..

Mine :: Mine (pron. & a.) Belonging to me; my. Used as a pronominal to me; my. Used as a pronominal adjective in the predicate; as, Vengeance is mine; I will repay. Rom. xii. 19. Also, in the old style, used attributively, instead of my, before a noun beginning with a vowel..

Avengeance :: Avengeance (n.) Vengeance.

Ate :: Ate (n.) The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance..

Wreak :: Wreak (v. t.) Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment.

Avenger :: Avenger (n.) One who takes vengeance.

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