| Revenge | n. 1. The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil. [ 1913 Webster ] Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is even with his enemy; but in passing it over he is superior. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury. [ 1913 Webster ] Revenge now goes
To lay a complot to betray thy foes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. Kames. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Revenge | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Revenged p. pr. & vb. n. Revenging ] [ OF. revengier, F. revancher; pref. re- re- + OF. vengier to avenge, revenge, F. venger, L. vindicare. See Vindicate, Vengerance, and cf. Revindicate. ] 1. To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer. [ 1913 Webster ] To revenge the death of our fathers. Ld. Berners. [ 1913 Webster ] The gods are just, and will revenge our cause. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ] Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come,
Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously. [ 1913 Webster ] Syn. -- To avenge; vindicate. See Avenge. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Revengeful | a. Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge. [ 1913 Webster ] If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] May my hands . . .
Never brandish more revengeful steel. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] Syn. -- Vindictive; vengeful; resentful; malicious. [ 1913 Webster ] -- Re*venge"ful*ly, adv. -- Re*venge"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ] |
