All 13 Uses
vengeance
in
The Black Widow
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- They had believed the stories to be true, a miscalculation that allowed the restorer to take vengeance against them.†
p. 42.4 *vengeance = the act of taking revenge
- The Palestinian terrorist group Black September had just murdered eleven Israeli athletes and coaches at the Olympic games in Munich, and Shamron wanted Gabriel, a native German speaker who had spent time in Europe, to serve as his instrument of vengeance.†
p. 48.3
- France's Muslim population exploded in size, far eclipsing the small, vulnerable Jewish community, and the oldest hatred returned with a vengeance.†
p. 137.9 *with a vengeance = with intensity
- She craves vengeance.†
p. 146.7vengeance = the act of taking revenge
- More than anything, though, his death required vengeance.†
p. 172.3
- Leila who wanted vengeance.†
p. 177.6
- Leila who wanted vengeance.†
p. 254.8
- Selma had come to the caliphate for a husband, but her husband had been killed fighting the Kurds and now she wanted vengeance.†
p. 288.2
- "For vengeance," said Natalie.†
p. 414.1
- I thought I wanted vengeance, too.†
p. 414.1
- It was funny, thought Lavon, watching him, but even after all these years he still moved like the boy of twenty-two who had served as Israel's angel of vengeance after Munich.†
p. 460.7
- Nor did anyone really care at that point, at least not in America, where blood vengeance was the first order of business.†
p. 485.5
- Perhaps a bit of old-fashioned vengeance is in order.†
p. 513.7
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)