VENGEANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vengeance mean? 

• VENGEANCE (noun)
  The noun VENGEANCE has 1 sense:

1. the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life

  Familiarity information: VENGEANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VENGEANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

payback; retribution; vengeance

Context example:

the swiftness of divine retribution

Hypernyms ("vengeance" is a kind of...):

retaliation; revenge (action taken in return for an injury or offense)

 Context examples 

How can such as you speak of violence and of vengeance.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was no fool himself, and whatever vengeance he desired to wreak, he could wait until he caught White Fang alone.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Well, let our name be vengeance.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This was the old days with a vengeance, with their dancing, and their fighting, and their fun.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You’ve found your legs with a vengeance.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

If I do, swear to me, Walton, that he shall not escape, that you will seek him and satisfy my vengeance in his death.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was to kill his best friend, or he was to expose himself and me to the vengeance of his comrades.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were at least three others whose desire for vengeance upon me would only be increased by the death of their leader.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Drink and the devil had done for the rest,” with a vengeance, although, to be sure, we were not quite in so bad a case as that other ship they sang about.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)