All 10 Uses of
vengeance
in
Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II
- NOTWITHSTANDING, when King Mark had done this deed, yet he thought to do more vengeance; and with his sword in his hand, he sought from chamber to chamber, to seek Anglides and her young son.†
Book 10
- Sir, I blame you not, said Gareth, for well I understand the vengeance of my brethren Sir Gawaine, Agravaine, Gaheris, and Mordred.†
Book 10 *
- Then Sir Bors saw four children bearing four fair tapers, and an old man in the midst of the children with a censer in his own hand, and a spear in his other hand, and that spear was called the Spear of Vengeance.†
Book 11
- How a servant of Sir Aglovale's was slain, and what vengeance Sir Aglovale and Sir Percivale did therefore.†
Book 11
- And for he had served so long the devil, he shall have vengeance four-and-twenty days long, for that he hath been the devil's servant four-and-twenty years.†
Book 16
- And when they came to themself, Bors saw that his brother had no harm; then he held up both his hands, for he dread God had taken vengeance upon him.†
Book 16
- Say ye not so, said Galahad, for if they misdid against God, the vengeance is not ours, but to Him which hath power thereof.†
Book 17
- And when they came there they found neither man nor woman that he ne was dead by the vengeance of Our Lord.†
Book 17
- With that they heard a voice that said: This vengeance is for blood-shedding of maidens.†
Book 17
- And there King Arthur made Sir Mordred chief ruler of all England, and also he put Queen Guenever under his governance; because Sir Mordred was King Arthur's son, he gave him the rule of his land and of his wife; and so the king passed the sea and landed upon Sir Launcelot's lands, and there he brent and wasted, through the vengeance of Sir Gawaine, all that they might overrun.†
Book 20
Definition:
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(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.)