vengeance
pronunciation
How to pronounce vengeance in British English:
UK [ˈvendʒəns]
How to pronounce vengeance in American English:
US [ˈvɛndʒəns]
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- Noun:
- the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life
Word Origin
- vengeance
- vengeance: see vindicate
- vengeance (n.)
- c. 1300, from Anglo-French vengeaunce, Old French vengeance, venjance "revenge, retribution" (12c.), from vengier "take revenge," from Latin vindicare "assert a claim, claim as one's own; avenge, punish" (see vindicate). Vengeance is mine, ... saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink; for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head. [Paul to the Romans, xii:19-20]
Synonym
Example
- 1. Who knows what vengeance the dark gods might take ?
- 2. Or their ghostly purpose , their pining vengeance ?
- 3. Whatever the case , his investment is now paying off with a vengeance .
- 4. Reality has struck with a vengeance .
- 5. The headaches , and the voices returned with a vengeance .