vendetta
/vɛnˈdɛtə/ noun C1- Revenge.
- A bitter, destructive feud, normally between two families, clans, or factions, in which each injury or slaying is revenged: a blood feud. · The families had been locked in a bitter vendetta for generations.
- A motivational grudge against a person or faction, which may or may not be reciprocated; the state of having it in for someone. · personal vendetta· blood vendetta
Plural vendettas
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The vendetta might conceivably date back to the man’s first marriage, and the ring be taken for some such reason.
I knew you were gloomy, and always brooding over some old history of the vendetta; and I overlooked that in Italy, because in Italy those things are thought nothing of.
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