All 6 Uses of
avenge
in
The Fountainhead
- Sometimes, when I feel bitter against the world, I find consolation in thinking that it's all right, that I'll be avenged, that the world will get what's coming to it—because there's Ellsworth Toohey.†
Chpt 1.10
- What do you want to be avenged for?†
Chpt 1.10 *
- I'd like to be avenged for the fact that I have nothing to be avenged for.†
Chpt 1.10
- I'd like to be avenged for the fact that I have nothing to be avenged for.†
Chpt 1.10
- It was difficult to punish Ellsworth under any circumstances, because of his fragile body and delicate health; besides, it seemed wrong to chastise a boy who had sacrificed himself to avenge injustice, and done it bravely, in the open, ignoring his own physical weakness; somehow, he looked like a martyr.†
Chpt 2.9
- One could never tell what he would avenge and what he would forgive.†
Chpt 3.1
Definition:
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(avenge) take revenge for a perceived wrong