VENGEANCE in JANE EYRE - verbalworkout.com

2 meanings, 8 uses

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1 —7 uses as in:
vengeance is mine

Definition

the act of taking revenge

(Revenge means to harm someone to get them back for something harmful that they have done.)

It is not violence that best overcomes hate — nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.
Chapter 6 (80% in)

Other Uses (with this meaning)

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
Chapter 4 (84% in)
It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion.
Chapter 21 (48% in)
"I care not in this moment sweet, Though all I have rushed o'er Should come on pinion, strong and fleet, Proclaiming vengeance sore: "Though haughty Hate should strike me down, Right, bar approach to me, And grinding Might, with furious frown, Swear endless enmity.
Chapter 24 (88% in)
Meantime, Mr. Rochester affirmed I was wearing him to skin and bone, and threatened awful vengeance for my present conduct at some period fast coming.
Chapter 24 (98% in)
Both by nature and principle, he was superior to the mean gratification of vengeance: he had forgiven me for saying I scorned him and his love, but he had not forgotten the words; and as long as he and I lived he never would forget them.
Chapter 35 (3% in)
My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.
Chapter 37 (32% in)

There are no more uses of "vengeance" flagged with this meaning in Jane Eyre.

Typical Usage (best examples)

2 —1 use as in:
with a vengeance

Definition

with intensity

"Little friend," said he, in quite a changed tone — while his face changed too, losing all its softness and gravity, and becoming harsh and sarcastic — "you have noticed my tender penchant for Miss Ingram: don't you think if I married her she would regenerate me with a vengeance?"
Chapter 20 (96% in)

There are no more uses of "with a vengeance" flagged with this meaning in Jane Eyre.

Typical Usage (best examples)

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