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Contents

     * 1 English
          + 1.1 Alternative forms
          + 1.2 Etymology
          + 1.3 Pronunciation
          + 1.4 Noun
               o 1.4.1 Synonyms
               o 1.4.2 Antonyms
               o 1.4.3 Translations
     * 2 French
          + 2.1 Etymology
          + 2.2 Pronunciation
          + 2.3 Noun
          + 2.4 External links

English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

     * vengeaunce

Etymology[edit]

   Old French venger (“avenge”)

Pronunciation[edit]

     * IPA^(key): /ˈvɛnˌdʒəns/
     *

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     * Rhymes: -ɛndʒəns

Noun[edit]

   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[edit]

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

Antonyms[edit]

     * reconciliation

Translations[edit]

   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[edit]

   French Wikipedia has an article on:
   Vengeance

   Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology[edit]

   venger + -ance

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

   vengeance f (plural vengeances)
    1. revenge, vengeance

External links[edit]

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

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