All 3 Uses of
vengeance
in
The House of Mirth
- She studied it with a kind of passion, as though it were some weapon she had slowly fashioned for her vengeance.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- Of course it was shocking for a married woman to borrow money—and Lily was expertly aware of the implication involved—but still, it was the mere MALUM PROHIBITUM which the world decries but condones, and which, though it may be punished by private vengeance, does not provoke the collective disapprobation of society.†
Chpt 1.7
- You can't want to take such a vengeance as that.†
Chpt 2.6
Definition:
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(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.)