All 10 Uses

vengeance
in
The Crucible
(Edited)

Long-held hatreds of neighbors could now be openly expressed, and vengeance taken,
p. 7.9 *

vengeance = revenge
I'll tell you what's walking Salem—vengeance is walking Salem.
p. 77.3

vengeance = the act of taking revenge
We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!
p. 77.4

vengeance = revenge
This warrant's vengeance!
p. 77.4
I'll not give my wife to vengeance!
p. 77.4
Only this consider: the world goes mad, and it profit nothing you should lay the cause to the vengeance of a little girl.
p. 79.1

vengeance = the act of taking revenge
I bid you now search your heart and tell me this—and beware of it, child, to God every soul is precious and His vengeance is terrible on them that take life without cause.
p. 108.2

vengeance = revenge
But it is a whore's vengeance, and you must see it; I set myself entirely in your hands.
p. 110.9
HALE: Excellency, it is a natural lie to tell; I beg you, stop now before another is condemned! I may shut my conscience to it no more—private vengeance is working through this testimony!
p. 114.1
Let Rebecca stand upon the gibbet and send up some righteous prayer, and I fear she'll wake a vengeance on you.
p. 127.8

Definitions:

(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
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)