vengeance
n.
infliction of a punishment as a payback for an injury or a wrong, retribution, retaliation
Vengeance
Vengeance (1970 film)
vengeance
Noun
1. the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life; "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"--Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution"
(synonym) retribution, payback
(hypernym) retaliation, revenge
vengeance (f)
n.
vengeance, retaliation, revenge
Vengeance
(n.)
Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge.
(n.)
Harm; mischief.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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