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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Wreak :: Wreak (v. t.) To execute in vengeance or passion; to inflict; to hurl or drive; as, to wreak vengeance on an enemy..
Commination :: Commination (n.) A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.
Vengement :: Vengement (n.) Avengement; penal retribution; vengeance.
Revenge :: Revenge (v. i.) To take vengeance; -- wit.
Vengeance :: Vengeance (n.) Harm; mischief.
Revengeance :: Revengeance (n.) Vengeance; revenge.
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.
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..
Avenge :: Avenge (v. i.) To take vengeance.
Wreak :: Wreak (v. t.) Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment.
Avengeance :: Avengeance (n.) Vengeance.
Visitation :: Visitation (n.) Special dispensation; communication of divine favor and goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance; retributive calamity; retribution; judgment..
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.
Sword :: Sword (n.) Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power..
Avenge :: Avenge (v. t.) To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
Ate :: Ate (n.) The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance..
Nemesis :: Nemesis (n.) The goddess of retribution or vengeance; hence, retributive justice personified; divine vengeance..
Summaries :: Summary (a.) Hence, rapidly performed; quickly executed; as, a summary process; to take summary 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..
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