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vengeances

vengeances is the plural of vengeance.

Meaning of vengeance

Noun

vengeance (countable and uncountable, plural vengeances)

  1. Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.
    • All the gods have mocked at prayer. This sin must now be punished by the vengeance of men.1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 28
  2. Desire for revenge.
    • Thereupon full of anger, full of jealousy, full of vengeance, she forms […] a scheme of retribution, […]1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC

Questions about vengeances

What is vengeances the plural of?
Vengeances is the plural of vengeance.

Words near vengeances in the dictionary

  1. venflons
  2. venge
  3. vengeable
  4. vengeably
  5. vengeance
  6. vengeances
  7. vengeant
  8. vengeaunce
  9. vengeaunces
  10. venged
  11. vengeful

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