All 3 Uses
vengeance
in
Sea Wolf
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- Leach could have killed him, but, having evidently filled the measure of his vengeance, he drew away from his prostrate foe, who was whimpering and wailing in a puppyish sort of way, and walked forward.†
Chpt 12 *vengeance = the act of taking revenge
- You've found your legs with a vengeance.†
Chpt 19 *with a vengeance = with intensity
- For his task he elected a vengeance on the shark.†
Chpt 21vengeance = 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)