All 4 Uses of
vengeance
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Lover, for her love he prowled with colonel Richard Burke, tanist of his sept, under the walls of Clerkenwell and, crouching, saw a flame of vengeance hurl them upward in the fog.†
Chpt 3 *vengeance = the act of taking revenge
- And they will come again and with a vengeance, no cravens, the sons of Granuaile, the champions of Kathleen ni Houlihan.†
Chpt 12 *with a vengeance = with intensity
- Not to insult over him will the vision come as over one that lies under her wrath, not for vengeance to cut him off from the living but shrouded in the piteous vesture of the past, silent, remote, reproachful.†
Chpt 14vengeance = the act of taking revenge
- North or south, however, it was just the wellknown case of hot passion, pure and simple, upsetting the applecart with a vengeance and just bore out the very thing he was saying as she also was Spanish or half so, types that wouldn't do things by halves, passionate abandon of the south, casting every shred of decency to the winds.†
Chpt 16with a vengeance = with intensity
Definitions:
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(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