Definition of vengeance

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

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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..
Revenge :: Revenge (v. t.) To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously..
Revenge :: Revenge (n.) The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.
Scourge :: Scourge (n.) Hence, a means of inflicting punishment, vengeance, or suffering; an infliction of affliction; a punishment..
Ultion :: Ultion (n.) The act of taking vengeance; revenge.
Vengement :: Vengement (n.) Avengement; penal retribution; vengeance.
Ate :: Ate (n.) The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance..
Avenge :: Avenge (v. t.) To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.
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..
Summaries :: Summary (a.) Hence, rapidly performed; quickly executed; as, a summary process; to take summary vengeance..
Vengeance :: Vengeance (n.) Harm; mischief.
Avenger :: Avenger (n.) One who takes vengeance.
Revenge :: Revenge (v. i.) To take vengeance; -- wit.
Avenge :: Avenge (n.) Vengeance; revenge.
Sacred :: Sacred (a.) Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful..
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.
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..
Solitary :: Solitary (a.) Single; individual; sole; as, a solitary instance of vengeance; a solitary example..
Vengeance :: Vengeance (n.) Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge..
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