revenge

Roget category 919

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.3. Sympathetic affections
›› 6.3.4. Retrospective sympathetic affections

#919. Revenge

noun

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.

verb

revenge, avenge — vindicate — take one's revenge, have one's revenge — breathe revenge, breathe vengeance — wreak one's vengeance, wreak one's anger.
have accounts to settle, have a crow to pluck, have a bone to pick, have a rod in pickle.
keep the wound green — harbor revenge, harbor vindictive feeling — bear malice — rankle, rankle in the breast.

adjective

revengeful, vengeful — vindictive, rancorous — pitiless etc. 914.1; ruthless, rigorous, avenging.
unforgiving, unrelenting — inexorable, stony-hearted, implacable — relentless, remorseless.
aeternum servans sub pectore vulnus [Lat.] — rankling — immitigable.

phrase

manet ciratrix [Lat.], manet alid mente repostum [Lat.] — dies irae dies illa [Lat.] — in high vengeance there is noble scorn" [G. Eliot]; inhumanum verbum est ultio [Lat.] [Seneca]; malevolus animus abditos dentes habet [Syrus]; now infidel I have thee on the hip" [Merchant of Venice].

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