All 5 Uses of
vengeance
in
Beowulf - (translated by: Gummere)
- Far off winter was driven; fair lay earth's breast; and fain was the rover, the guest, to depart, though more gladly he pondered on wreaking his vengeance than roaming the deep, and how to hasten the hot encounter where sons of the Frisians were sure to be.†
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- Anon full ready in greed of vengeance, Grendel's mother set forth all doleful.†
- The folk's own fastness that fiery dragon with flame had destroyed, and the stronghold all washed by waves; but the warlike king, prince of the Weders, plotted vengeance.†
- Men of my folk for that feud had vengeance, for woful war ('tis widely known), though one of them bought it with blood of his heart, a bargain hard: for Haethcyn proved fatal that fray, for the first-of-Geats.†
- An old warrior points it out to Ingeld, and eggs him on to vengeance.†
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.)