All 4 Uses
vengeance
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Tartuffe
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- If I were in her place, most assuredly No man would wed me with impunity, And I'd prove to him right after the wedding That a wife's vengeance lies in the bedding!†
Chpt 2.2vengeance = the act of taking revenge
- By hiding here I've heard all he proposed, And God in His goodness has guided me To confound this noisome bastard's treachery, To discover a way to take my vengeance For his hypocrisy and insolence, To wake up my father, and to justly screw This scumbag who wants to make love to you.†
Chpt 3.4
- Supposing that he did act like a fool And that you are unfairly being called cruel, Shouldn't a Christian pardon the offense And purge his soul of desire for vengeance?†
Chpt 4.1 *
- Leave it to Him to take care of vengeance; He bids us to forgive every offense And not to consider human judgments When we follow God's sovereign commandments.†
Chpt 4.1
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)