Definition of vengeance

"vengeance" in the noun sense

1. vengeance, retribution, payback

the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life I will repay, saith the Lord"

"Vengeance is mine

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Quotations for vengeance

Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow. [ J. Ford ]

Vile is the vengeance on the ashes cold,
And envy base to bark at sleeping fame. [ Spenser ]

When at the close of each sad, sorrowing day,
Fancy restores what vengeance snatched away. [ Pope ]

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. [ Alfieri ]

To the just Gods, not us, pertaineth vengeance. [ Thomson ]

Life without a friend is death with a vengeance. [ Proverb ]

On wrong
Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong. [ Pope ]

Where villainy goes before vengeance follows after. [ Proverb ]

Virtue carries a reward with it; and so does vice with a vengeance. [ Proverb ]

We are so desirous of vengeance that people often offend us by not giving offence. [ Madame Deluzy ]

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance, of justice: injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution. [ Charles Dickens ]

There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate cry for vengeance to heaven. [ Pestalozzi ]

Many sacrifices have been made just to enjoy the feeling of vengeance, without any intention of causing an amount of injury equivalent to what one has suffered. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick, yet, with my nobler reason, against my fury do I take part; the rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance. [ William Shakespeare ]

A great man, I take it, is a man so inspired and permeated with the ideas of God and the Christly spirit as to be too magnanimous for vengeance, and too unselfish to seek his own ends. [ David Thomas ]

vengeance in Scrabble®

The word vengeance is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters vengeance:

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vengeance in Words With Friends™

The word vengeance is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 20

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Words within the letters of vengeance

2 letter words in vengeance (3 words)

3 letter words in vengeance (9 words)

4 letter words in vengeance (12 words)

5 letter words in vengeance (3 words)

6 letter words in vengeance (1 word)

9 letter words in vengeance (1 word)

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Words containing the sequence vengeance

Words that start with vengeance (2 words)

Words with vengeance in them (1 word)

Words that end with vengeance (1 word)

Word Growth involving vengeance

Shorter words in vengeance

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