vengeance
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English
Alternative forms
- vengeaunce (obsolete)
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman vengeaunce, from Old French vengeance, venjance, from vengier (“to avenge”). Analysable as venge + -ance.
Pronunciation
Noun
vengeance (countable and uncountable, plural vengeances)
- Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.
- 1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 28:
- All the gods have mocked at prayer. This sin must now be punished by the vengeance of men.
- 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.
- 2022 April 5, Sean Hannity, Sean Penn, 22:33 from the start, in Sean Penn joins Sean Hannity to discuss Russian invasion of Ukraine (Hannity), Fox News, archived from the original on 11 April 2022:
- Penn: I don't want to invest in the conversation, not that I don't have it privately, about my feelings about what direct action should happen to a leader who does that, but if there is a God, there will be vengeance beyond all possible comprehension.
Hannity: "Vengeance is mine saith the Lord", quoted in a very famous book.
- Desire for revenge.
- 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1857, →OCLC:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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.
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Translations
revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɑ̃.ʒɑ̃s/
- Rhymes: -ɑ̃s
- Homophone: vengeances
- Hyphenation: ven‧geance
Noun
vengeance f (plural vengeances)
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Further reading
- “vengeance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Old French
Noun
vengeance oblique singular, f (oblique plural vengeances, nominative singular vengeance, nominative plural vengeances)
- Alternative form of venjance