Nemesis as a noun: - 1
nemesis - 2
Nemesis
noun
1 Nemesis
Greek mythology The goddess of divine retribution and vengeance.
Dutch: tegenvoeter, wrekende gerechtigheid, Nemesis
Polish: Nemezis, Nemezys
2 nemesis
Something causing misery or death.
synonyms: bane, curse, scourge.
Dutch: verderf, Nemesis, anathema, doem, maledictie, nemesis, vervloeking, vloek
Polish: przekleństwo
Roget 972:
punishment,
punition†;
chastisement,
chastening;
correction,
castigation.
discipline,
infliction,
trial;
judgment;
penalty
etc.
974;
retribution;
thunderbolt,
Nemesis;
requital
etc.
(reward)
973;
penology;
retributive justice.
lash,
scaffold
etc.
(instrument of punishment)
975;
imprisonment
etc.
(restraint)
751;
transportation,
banishment,
expulsion,
exile,
involuntary exile,
ostracism;
penal servitude,
hard labor;
galleys
etc.
975;
beating
etc.
v.;
flagellation,
fustigation†,
gantlet,
strappado†,
estrapade†,
bastinado,
argumentum baculinum [Lat.],
stick law,
rap on the knuckles,
box on the ear;
blow
etc.
(impulse)
276;
stripe,
cuff,
kick,
buffet,
pummel;
slap,
slap in the face;
wipe,
douse;
coup de grace;
torture,
rack;
picket,
picketing;
dragonnade†.
capital punishment;
execution;
lethal injection;
the gas chamber;
hanging
etc.
v.;
electrocution,
rail-riding,
scarpines†;
decapitation,
decollation†;
garrotte,
garrotto [It];
crucifixion,
impalement;
firing squad;
martyrdom;
auto-da-fe [Fr.];
noyade†;
happy dispatch.
[suicide as punishment]
hara-kiri,
seppuku [Jap.];
drinking the hemlock.
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Roget 919:
revenge,
revengement†;
vengeance;
avengement†,
avengeance†,
sweet revenge,
vendetta,
death feud,
blood for blood retaliation
etc.
718;
day of reckoning.
rancor,
vindictiveness,
implacability;
malevolence
etc.
907;
ruthlessness
etc.
914.1.
avenger,
vindicator,
Nemesis,
Eumenides.
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Roget 922:
right;
what ought to be,
what should be;
fitness
etc.
adj.;
summum jus [Lat.].
justice,
equity;
equitableness
etc.
adj.;
propriety;
fair play,
impartiality,
measure for measure,
give and take,
lex talionis [Lat.].
Astraea†,
Nemesis,
Themis.
scales of justice,
evenhanded justice,
karma;
suum cuique [Lat.];
clear stage,
fair field and no favor,
level playing field.
morals
etc.
(duty)
926;
law
etc.
963;
honor
etc.
(probity)
939;
virtue
etc.
944.
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Moby thesaurus: affliction, bane, bugbear, burden, calamity, castigation, chastening, chastisement, condign punishment, correction, crushing burden, curse, death, defensibility, deserts, destruction, disciplinary measures, discipline, disease, drumhead justice, dueness, equitableness, equity, evenhandedness, evil, ferule, give-and-take, grievance, harm, infliction, judgment, judicial punishment, justice, justifiability, justifiableness, justification, justness, lawfulness, legality, measure for measure, meetness, open wound, pains, pains and punishments, pay, payment, penal retribution, penalty, penology, pest, pestilence, plague, poetic justice, properness, propriety, punishment, punition, retribution, retributive justice, right, rightfulness, rightness, rude justice, running sore, scales of justice, scourge, summary justice, thorn, torment, vexation, visitation, warrantability, warrantedness, well-deserved punishment, what is right, what-for, woe ... show more.
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