All 15 Uses of

vengeance

in

Le Morte D'Arthur

Also he told Arthur how Balin the worshipful knight shall give the dolorous stroke, whereof shall fall great vengeance.†
Book 2 *

vengeance = the act of taking revenge

And all that were alive cried, O Balin, thou hast caused great damage in these countries; for the dolorous stroke thou gavest unto King Pellam three countries are destroyed, and doubt not but the vengeance will fall on thee at the last.†
Book 2

Ah, said the king, here may ye see the vengeance of God, and now am I sorry that this misadventure is befallen.†
Book 4

Sir, I loved once a lady, a fair damosel, and she had her brother slain; and she said it was Sir Launcelot du Lake, or else Sir Gawaine; and she prayed me as that I loved her heartily, that I would make her a promise by the faith of my knighthood, for to labour daily in arms unto I met with one of them; and all that I might overcome I should put them unto a villainous death; and this is the cause that I have put all these knights to death, and so I ensured her to do all the villainy unto King Arthur's knights, and that I should take vengeance upon all these knights.†
Book 7

Ah, false king, said Sir Palomides, it is pity thou hast thy life, for thou art a destroyer of all worshipful knights, and by thy mischief and thy vengeance thou hast destroyed that most noble knight, Sir Tristram de Liones.†
Book 9

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

Definitions:

(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