All 18 Uses of
vengeance
in
Circe
- Charge of the punishment had been given to a Fury, one of the infernal goddesses of vengeance who dwell among the dead.
p. 18.4vengeance = taking revenge
- "My bitch sister is exiled for what she did to you," I said, "but she deserved worse. What vengeance do you desire? Tell me. Pasiphae and I will do it."
I was making myself speak slowly. Each moment was another beat
of the oars.p. 115.1vengeance = revenge
- Pasiphae and her petty vengeances.
p. 150.5vengeances = acts of taking revenge
- No sign of brothers or fathers or sons, no vengeance that would follow after.
p. 194.5vengeance = revenge
- "What was the fight over?"
"Let me see if I can remember the list." He ticked his fingers. "Vengeance. Lust. Hubris. Greed. Power. What have I forgotten? Ah yes, vanity, and pique."p. 200.6
- And, of course, your father Helios is zealous in his vengeances.
p. 203.9vengeances = acts of taking revenge
- Odysseus had had to blind him to escape, and now Poseidon hunted them across the waves in vengeance.
p. 207.5vengeance = revenge
- It felt a kind of vengeance to say: "I have a message for you from the gods."
p. 231.5
- Astyanax and all the sons of Troy, smashed and spitted, torn to pieces, trampled by horses, killed and killed so they would not live and grow to strength and one day come looking for their vengeance.
p. 244.3
- There were other ways to Ithaca. That Odysseus had not been able to take them had been a piece of Poseidon's vengeance.
p. 275.5
- Vengeance, I thought. It must be. What other purpose would bring them?
p. 296.6 *
- As a quiet boy keeping watch for Odysseus, as a burning youth bearing vengeance across land and sea.
p. 308.5
- He had always loved his vengeances.
p. 309.2vengeances = acts of taking revenge
- Was she plotting to open my son's throat even now, to carry out her vengeance?
p. 311.6vengeance = revenge
- "I thought you did not suspect them anymore."
"Not of vengeance. But there are other questions."p. 318.3
- You see it as a sort of vengeance then.
p. 325.5
- It was likely that Athena plotted vengeance against Telegonus already; this would add fuel to fire.
p. 329.2
- Here was her vengeance at last.
p. 354.6
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