All 10 Uses
vengeance
in
Beowulf - (translated by: Hall)
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- The kindred of Cain crushed with His vengeance;
In the feud He rejoiced not, but far away drove him
From kindred and kind, that crime to atone for,
Meter of Justice.†vengeance = the act of taking revenge - Then winter was gone,
Earth's bosom was lovely; the exile would get him,
{He devises schemes of vengeance.† - The guest from the palace; on grewsomest vengeance
15 He brooded more eager than on oversea journeys,
Whe'r onset-of-anger he were able to 'complish,
The bairns of the Jutemen therein to remember.† - Eager and gloomy was anxious to go on
Her mournful mission, mindful of vengeance
For the death of her son.† - [2] The line 'And ...yielding,' B. renders: _And she has performed a
deed of blood-vengeance whose effect is far-reaching_.†* - Then she sat on the hall-guest
And wielded her war-knife wide-bladed, flashing,
For her son would take vengeance, her one only bairn.† - 15 'Art thou able, my friend, to know when thou seest it
The brand which thy father bare to the conflict
In his latest adventure, 'neath visor of helmet,
The dearly-loved iron, where Danemen did slay him,
And brave-mooded Scyldings, on the fall of the heroes,
20 (When vengeance was sleeping) the slaughter-place wielded?† - 85 Was ready for vengeance, wretched she journeyed;
Her son had death ravished, the wrath of the Geatmen.† - {AEschere falls a prey to her vengeance.†
- 'Twas a feeless fight, finished in malice,
50 Sad to his spirit; the folk-prince however
Had to part from existence with vengeance untaken.†
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)