vengeance

English

Alternative forms

• vengeaunce

Etymology

Old French venger (“avenge”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛnˌdʒəns/

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• Rhymes: -ɛndʒəns

Noun

vengeance (countable and uncountable, plural vengeances)

1. Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.
   • 2000, Gladiator (film):

     My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North; General of the Felix Legions; loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius; father to a murdered son; husband to a murdered wife; and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

2. Desire for revenge.
   • c. 1856, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit:

     Thereupon full of anger, full of jealousy, full of vengeance, she forms […] a scheme of retribution, […]

   • 2008, Jean Harvey Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography (ISBN 0393075680):

     If her husband was all forgiveness, asking the bands to play “Dixie,” she was full of vengeance […]

   • 2011, James Calloway, Black America, Not in This America (ISBN 1462868576):

     Are they full of vengeance[?], because they say that people with vengeance in their hearts must dig two graves, one for their enemy and the other for themselves.

Synonyms

• reprisal
• retaliation
• retribution
• revenge
• wreak
• See also Wikisaurus:revenge

Antonyms

• reconciliation

Translations

revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong

• Arabic: يثأر m (ṯaʾr), انتقام m (intiqām)
• Armenian: վրեժ (vrež)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 復仇, 复仇 (zh) (fùchóu)

• Czech: pomsta f
• Danish: hævn
• Dutch: vendetta, vergelding (nl), wraak (nl)
• Esperanto: venĝo
• Estonian: kättemaks
• Finnish: kosto (fi)
• French: vengeance (fr) f
• Georgian: შურისძიება (šurisjieba)
• German: Rache (de) f, Vergeltung (de) f
• Greek: εκδίκηση (el) f (ekdíkisi)

  Ancient: τιμωρία f (timōría)

• Ido: venjo (io)
• Italian: vendetta (it) f, rivalsa f, rappresaglia f, ritorsione f

• Japanese: 復讐 (ふくしゅう, fukushū)
• Korean: 복수 (ko) (boksu) (復讐)
• Macedonian: одмазда f (ódmazda)
• Maltese: vendetta f, tpattija f
• Maori: ngakinga
• Persian: انتقام (fa) (enteqâm)
• Polish: zemsta (pl) f
• Portuguese: vingança (pt) f
• Russian: месть (ru) f (mestʹ), мщение (ru) n (mščénije), воздаяние (ru) n (vozdajánije), реванш (ru) m (revánš)
• Scottish Gaelic: dìoghaltas m, aicheamhail f
• Slovak: pomsta f
• Spanish: venganza (es) f
• Swedish: hämnd (sv)
• Turkish: intikam (tr)
• Vietnamese: sự trả thù (vi)

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French

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Etymology

venger +‎ -ance

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɑ̃.ʒɑ̃s/
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s
• Homophone: vengeances
• Hyphenation: ven‧geance

Noun

vengeance f (plural vengeances)

1. revenge, vengeance

External links

• "vengeance" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).