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desirous of seeking revenge or wanting to hurt someone
- My disposition is not so bad as you think: I am passionate, but not vindictive.Chapter 21 (95% in)
- It was strange: a bold, vindictive, and haughty gentleman seemed somehow in the power of one of the meanest of his dependants; so much in her power, that even when she lifted her hand against his life, he dared not openly charge her with the attempt, much less punish her for it.Chapter 16 (35% in)
- ...to live here with MY WIFE, as you term that fearful hag: Grace will do much for money, and she shall have her son, the keeper at Grimsby Retreat, to bear her company and be at hand to give her aid in the paroxysms, when MY WIFE is prompted by her familiar to burn people in their beds at night, to stab them, to bite their flesh from their bones, and so on — " "Sir," I interrupted him, "you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady: you speak of her with hate — with vindictive antipathy.Chapter 27 (16% in)
- Not that St. John harboured a spirit of unchristian vindictiveness — not that he would have injured a hair of my head, if it had been fully in his power to do so.Chapter 35 (2% in)
There are no more uses of "vindictive" in Jane Eyre.
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