All 6 Uses of
vengeance
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
- It would be a better story, I think, if Mr. Fish had been killed by the diaper truck—but every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance toward the innocent.
p. 9..4 (definition 1) *vengeance = the act of taking revenge
- And it occurs to me now that Owen's voice was the voice of all those murdered mice, coming back to life—with a vengeance.
p. 19..9 (definition 2)with a vengeance = with intensity
- —but when Mr. Morrison discovered that he had no lines, that the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come never speaks, he became contemptuous of the part; he threatened to quit, but then remained in the role with a vengeance, sneering and scoffing at poor Scrooge's questions, and…
p. 181..5 (definition 2) *
- She was a trustee of everything, and the Town Library was not the only board she served; it was simply the board she was most often associated with, because it was a board she served with special vengeance.
p. 244..9 (definition 1)vengeance = desire for revenge
- Chief Pike had carried the fallen postal thespian into the bracing night air, where Mr. Morrison had revived with a vengeance—wrestling in the snow with Gravesend's determined chief of police, until Mr. Morrison yielded to the strong arm of the law.
p. 257..4 (definition 2)with a vengeance = with intensity
- But she maintained the Fifth Avenue apartment with a vengeance; and included in her alimony was the expense of her annual pilgrimage to Round Hill, Jamaica—
p. 379..3 (definition 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.)
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(2) (with a vengeance as in: with a vengeance) with intensity