All 9 Uses
vengeance
in
The Odyssey
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- Now the gods have reversed our fortunes with a vengeance—
wiped that man from the earth like no one else before.†p. 85.3with a vengeance = with intensity - But I'll cry out to the everlasting gods in hopes
that Zeus will pay you back with a vengeance—all of you
destroyed in my house while I go scot-free myself!†p. 90.1 - But I'll cry out to the everlasting gods in hopes
that Zeus will pay you back with a vengeance—all of you
destroyed in my house while I go scot-free myself!†p. 98.1 - Vengeance done, he held a feast for the Argives,
to bury his hated mother, craven Aegisthus too,
the very day Menelaus arrived, lord of the warcry,
freighted with all the wealth his ships could carry.†p. 117.4 *vengeance = the act of taking revenge - So I vaunted and he groaned back in answer,
'Oh no, no—that prophecy years ago ...
it all comes home to me with a vengeance now!†p. 227.5 *with a vengeance = with intensity - Zeus from the very start, the thunder king
has hated the race of Atreus with a vengeance—
his trustiest weapon women's twisted wiles.†p. 263.7 - They might well wonder, blind to what had happened,
till Alcinous rose and made things all too clear:
"Oh no—my father's prophecy years ago ...
it all comes home to me with a vengeance now!†p. 292.2 - Even cutthroat bandits who raid foreign parts—
and Zeus grants them a healthy share of plunder,
ships filled to the brim, and back they head for home—
even their dark hearts are stalked by the dread of vengeance.†p. 304.4vengeance = the act of taking revenge - Well I know the truth of my good lord's return,
how the gods detested him, with a vengeance—
never letting him go under, fighting Trojans,
or die in the arms of loved ones,
once he'd wound down the long coil of war.†p. 313.3with a vengeance = with intensity
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)