vengeance
English
Alternative forms
- vengeaunce (obsolete)
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman vengeaunce, from Old French vengeance, venjance, from vengier (“to avenge”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvɛnˌdʒəns/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛndʒəns
Noun
vengeance (countable and uncountable, plural vengeances)
- 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.
- c. 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:
- 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.
- c. 1856, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit:
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɑ̃.ʒɑ̃s/
- Rhymes: -ɑ̃s
- Homophone: vengeances
- Hyphenation: ven‧geance
Further reading
- “vengeance” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Noun
vengeance f (oblique plural vengeances, nominative singular vengeance, nominative plural vengeances)
- Alternative form of venjance
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