All 8 Uses of
vengeance
in
Jane Eyre
- Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- It is not violence that best overcomes hate — nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.†
Chpt 6 (definition 1) *
- "Little friend," said he, in quite a changed tone — while his face changed too, losing all its softness and gravity, and becoming harsh and sarcastic — "you have noticed my tender penchant for Miss Ingram: don't you think if I married her she would regenerate me with a vengeance?"†
Chpt 20 (definition 2) *
- It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion.†
Chpt 21 (definition 1)
- "I care not in this moment sweet, Though all I have rushed o'er Should come on pinion, strong and fleet, Proclaiming vengeance sore: "Though haughty Hate should strike me down, Right, bar approach to me, And grinding Might, with furious frown, Swear endless enmity.†
Chpt 24 (definition 1)
- Meantime, Mr. Rochester affirmed I was wearing him to skin and bone, and threatened awful vengeance for my present conduct at some period fast coming.†
Chpt 24 (definition 1)
- Both by nature and principle, he was superior to the mean gratification of vengeance: he had forgiven me for saying I scorned him and his love, but he had not forgotten the words; and as long as he and I lived he never would forget them.†
Chpt 35 (definition 1)
- My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.†
Chpt 37 (definition 1)
Definitions:
-
(1) (vengeance as in: vengeance is mine) the act of taking revenge
(Revenge means to harm someone to get them back for something harmful that they have done.)
-
(2) (with a vengeance as in: with a vengeance) with intensity