All 4 Uses of
vengeance
in
Gone with the Wind
- But there are other scoundrels who masquerade under the cloak of the blockader for their own selfish gains, and I call down the just wrath and vengeance of an embattled people, fighting in the justest of Causes, on these human vultures who bring in satins and laces when our men are dying for want of quinine, who load their boats with tea and wines when our heroes are writhing for lack of morphia.†
Chpt 2.13 (definition 1)
- Atlanta was wild with excitement, pleasure and a hot thirst for vengeance.†
Chpt 2.14 (definition 1) *
- I was his right eye, his oldest son, and he plucked me out with a vengeance.†
Chpt 4.43 (definition 2) *
- She wanted comforting, indignation, threats of vengeance.†
Chpt 4.45 (definition 1)
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.)
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(2) (with a vengeance as in: with a vengeance) with intensity