vengeance
/ˈvɛnˌd͡ʒəns/ noun C1- Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.
- Desire for revenge.
Plural vengeances
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Then Anne looked at him with a vengeance!
“What smouldering fire of vengeance had suddenly sprung into flame in this passionate Celtic woman’s soul when she saw the man who had wronged her—wronged her, perhaps, far more than we suspected—in her power?
There were at least three others whose desire for vengeance upon me would only be increased by the death of their leader.
Well, this injury, as he would consider it, has rankled in his wicked, scheming brain, and all his life he has longed for vengeance, but never seen his chance.
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