Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Infliction of punishment in return for a wrong committed; retribution.
- idiom (with a vengeance) With great violence or force.
- idiom (with a vengeance) To an extreme degree.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Extremely; very.
- noun Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense.
- noun Harm, mischief, or evil generally: formerly often used as an imprecation, especially in the phrase what a (the) vengeance!
- noun Synonyms 1. Retribution, Retaliation, etc. See
revenge .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge.
- noun obsolete Harm; mischief.
- noun [Obs.] what! -- emphatically.
- noun [Colloq.] with even greater intensity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Revenge taken for aninsult ,injury , or other wrong.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And 'vengeance' is used by the highest authorities.
Archive 2005-07-10 Laban 2005
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And 'vengeance' is used by the highest authorities.
Calm Down, Calm Down - Or Not Laban 2005
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And 'vengeance' is used by the highest authorities.
July 10, 2005 Laban 2005
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This assigns the reason why He has thus destroyed the foe (Zep 3: 8). my redeemed -- My people to be redeemed. day ... year -- here, as in Isa 34: 8; 61: 2, the time of "vengeance" is described as a "day"; that of grace and of "recompense" to the
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I have learned to put my trust in God because he says vengeance is mine, and sometimes we have to step back and let faith take its course.
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All that stands between the Foolkiller and vengeance is 98 pounds of pure, unadulterated mean.
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Avenging something or someone implies that you have been a victim of outrages and vengeance is required.
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Although the Lord takes vengeance on unbridled domination, let us not therefore suppose that that vengeance is committed to us, to whom no command has been given but to obey and suffer.
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January 21, 2010 10: 18 AM vengeance is mine said ... awesome! even tho i'm a huge fan of crom (us) i've never seen a lot of that merch. thx for the shout out!
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November 18, 2009 5: 55 PM vengeance is mine said ... pretty dope yet another blog to follow
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dbekeny commented on the word vengeance
WITCH
You stay out of this! I'm here for
vengeance! So it was you, was it? You killed
her,....
June 11, 2010