Both Uses of
vendetta
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- The seer raised his hand to heaven, murmuring: The vendetta of Mananaun!†
Chpt 14 *
- …what he was) a certain kind of admiration for a man who had actually brandished a knife, cold steel, with the courage of his political convictions (though, personally, he would never be a party to any such thing), off the same bat as those love vendettas of the south, have her or swing for her, when the husband frequently, after some words passed between the two concerning her relations with the other lucky mortal (he having had the pair watched), inflicted fatal injuries on his adored…†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(vendetta) a long-lasting disagreement in which one side tries to harm the other