All 3 Uses of
vindictive
in
Middlemarch
- Since, thus, the prevision of his own unending bliss could not nullify the bitter savors of irritated jealousy and vindictiveness, it is the less surprising that the probability of a transient earthly bliss for other persons, when he himself should have entered into glory, had not a potently sweetening effect.†
Chpt 4
- The human soul moves in many channels, and Mr. Casaubon, we know, had a sense of rectitude and an honorable pride in satisfying the requirements of honor, which compelled him to find other reasons for his conduct than those of jealousy and vindictiveness.†
Chpt 4 *
- The vindictive fire was still burning in him, and he could utter no word of retractation; but it was nevertheless in his mind that having come back to this hearth where he had enjoyed a caressing friendship he had found calamity seated thereāhe had had suddenly revealed to him a trouble that lay outside the home as well as within it.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(vindictive) desirous of seeking revenge or wanting to hurt someone