Both Uses
vengeance
in
A Man Named Dave
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- By the evil smile I knew The Mother had returned with a vengeance.†
p. 86.7 *with a vengeance = with intensity
- If I could just strip through the layers of vengeance ... With true sincerity, I gently probed, "What happened?"†
p. 211.6 *vengeance = the act of taking revenge
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)