Found 4 items, similar to Vengeance.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: vengeance
pembalasan
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: vengeance
balas dendam, dendam
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: vengeance
vengeance
n : the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation
for something harmful that they have done) especially in
the next life;
“Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith
the Lord”--Romans 12:19;
“For vengeance I would do
nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere
revenge”--James Garfield;
“he swore vengeance on the man
who betrayed him”;
“the swiftness of divine retribution”
[syn:
retribution,
payback]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Vengeance
Vengeance
\Venge"ance\, n. [F. vengeance, fr. venger to avenge,
L. vindicare to lay claim to, defend, avenge, fr. vindex a
claimant, defender, avenger, the first part of which is of
uncertain origin, and the last part akin to dicere to say.
See
Diction, and cf.
Avenge,
Revenge,
Vindicate.]
1. Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an
offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate
or unrestrained revenge.
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To me belongeth vengeance and recompense. --Deut.
xxxii. 35.
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To execute fierce vengeance on his foes. --Milton.
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2. Harm; mischief. [Obs.] --Shak.
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What a vengeance, or
What the vengeance, what! --
emphatically. [Obs.]
“But what a vengeance makes thee
fly!” --Hudibras.
“What the vengeance! Could he not
speak 'em fair?” --Shak.
With a vengeance, with great violence; as, to strike with a
vengeance. [Colloq.]
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