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vengeance
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Another Country
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The white officer, with a curse, had vanished, had gone forever beyond the reach of vengeance.†
p. 13.1

vengeance = the act of taking revenge
Children, in great gangs and clouds, erupted out of side streets with the sound of roller skates and came roaring down on their elders like vengeance long prepared, or the arrow released from the bow.†
p. 143.3
The film was one of those politics, sex, and vengeance dramas the French love to turn out, and it starred one of the great French actors, who had died when this film was completed.†
p. 328.8 *
He had used her in the hope of avoiding a confrontation with himself which he had, nevertheless, and with a vengeance, been forced to endure.†
p. 404.9 *

with a vengeance = with intensity

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
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)