Both Uses
vengeance
in
A Soldier of the Great War
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- From the Nineties on, we had begun to look to Africa with a vengeance.†
Chpt 1 *with a vengeance = with intensity
- We had known that our happiness would end, but we had not thought that it would be totally destroyed, as if in vengeance.†
Chpt 10 *vengeance = 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
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)