vengeance
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈvɛnˌdʒəns/
vengeance
- Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.
- 2000, Gladiator (film):
- My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North; General of the Felix Legions; loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius; father to a murdered son; husband to a murdered wife; and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
- 2000, Gladiator (film):
- Desire for revenge.
- circa 1856 Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit:
- Thereupon full of anger, full of jealousy, full of vengeance, she forms […] a scheme of retribution, […]
- 2008, Jean Harvey Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography ISBN 0393075680:
- If her husband was all forgiveness, asking the bands to play “Dixie,” she was full of vengeance […]
- 2011, James Calloway, Black America, Not in This America ISBN 1462868576:
- Are they full of vengeance[?], because they say that people with vengeance in their hearts must dig two graves, one for their enemy and the other for themselves.
- circa 1856 Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit:
- French: vengeance
- German: Rache, Vergeltung
- Italian: vendetta, rivalsa, rappresaglia, ritorsione
- Portuguese: vingança
- Russian: месть
- Spanish: venganza
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