Both Uses of
vengeance
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- Let this be a warning to you not to take vengeance into your own hands.†
Chpt 16 *vengeance = the act of taking revenge
- But perhaps it had been only his fancy that had called vengeance out of the night, and set the hideous shapes of punishment before him.†
Chpt 18
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