The Only Use of
vengeance
in
Things Fall Apart
- As he lay on his bamboo bed he thought about the treatment he had received in the white man's court, and he swore vengeance.†
p. 199.9vengeance = the act of taking revenge
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