Both Uses of
vengeance
in
A Raisin in the Sun
- She closes the door with a sleepy vengeance and crosses to the table and sits down a little defeated) BENEATHA: I am going to start timing those people.†
Scene 1.1vengeance = the act of taking revenge
- Go ahead and laugh—but I'm not interested in being someone's little episode in America or—(With feminine vengeance)—one of them!†
Scene 1.2 *
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