Both Uses of
avenge
in
Crime and Punishment
- Your wife will only prove how she respects you by considering you incapable of opposing her happiness and avenging yourself on her for her new husband.†
Chpt 5.1
- I never had a great hatred for anyone, I never particularly desired to avenge myself even, and that's a bad sign, a bad sign, a bad sign.†
Chpt 6.6 *
Definition:
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(avenge) take revenge for a perceived wrong