All 3 Uses of
vengeance
in
The Bluest Eye
- This family, on a Saturday morning in October, began, one by one, to stir out of their dreams of affluence and vengeance into the anonymous misery of their storefront.†
Chpt 2 *vengeance = the act of taking revenge
- They would sleep with their husbands, and take their money, but always with a vengeance.†
Chpt 2 *with a vengeance = with intensity
- Singly they found their way to his door, wrapped each in a shroud stitched with anger, yearning, pride, vengeance, loneliness, misery, defeat, and hunger.†
Chpt 4vengeance = 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