Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like, on a person by another who has been harmed by that person; violent revenge: But have you the right to vengeance?
- an act or opportunity of inflicting such trouble: to take one’s vengeance.
- the desire for revenge: a man full of vengeance.
- Obsolete. hurt; injury.
- Obsolete. curse; imprecation.
- with a vengeance,
- with force or violence.
- greatly; extremely.
- to an unreasonable, excessive, or surprising degree: He attacked the job with a vengeance.
noun
- the act of or desire for taking revenge; retributive punishment
- with a vengeance (intensifier)the 70’s have returned with a vengeance
c.1300, from Anglo-French vengeaunce, Old French vengeance “revenge,” from vengier “take revenge,” from Latin vindicare “to set free, claim, avenge” (see vindicate).
Vengeance is mine, … saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink; for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head. [Paul to the Romans, xii:19-20]
see with a vengeance.