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with a vengeance

with a vengeance prepositional phrase: with an intense motivation; in an extreme, intense, or violent manner.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) With an intense motivation; in an extreme, intense, or violent manner.
    • With which intolerable pains if the party shriek or cry out, they roar out as loud to him to confess the truth, or else he shall come down with a vengeance.1651, Samuel Clarke, A General Martyrologie, Underhill (London), ch. 27 "The Original Progress and Practice of the Spanish Inquisition," p. 209
    • Yes, egad, they are tenacious of reputation with a vengeance, for they don't choose anybody should have a character but themselves!1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal

with a vengeance meaning in Malayalam

with a vengeance in Malayalam

strenuously, vigorously, energetically
വാശിയോടെ, ഊർജ്ജസ്വലമായി, ഊറ്റമായി, വർദ്ധിതവീര്യത്തോടെ, ചൊടിയോടെ, ശക്തമായി

Examples of with a vengeance in a sentence

  • It is said, that in the first representation of the Furies of Eschylus, the horror of the spectacle was so great, that several women miscarried; which was indeed pathos with a vengeance.1779, “Miscellaneous Essays: From Dr. Beattie's Essay on Music and Poetry”, in Edmund Burke, editor, The Annual Register, or a View of the...
  • They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers...
  • From the first, she is the New Woman with a vengeance, loving nothing better than a chair, whisky, cigars and a detective story.1966 Sep, Charles A. Berst, “Propaganda and Art in Mrs Warren's Profession”, in ELH, volume 33, number 3, page 404:

Synonyms of with a vengeance

Questions about with a vengeance

What does with a vengeance mean?
With a vengeance means with an intense motivation; in an extreme, intense, or violent manner.
What is with a vengeance in Malayalam?
With a vengeance in Malayalam is വാശിയോടെ, ഊർജ്ജസ്വലമായി, ഊറ്റമായി. See With a vengeance meaning in Malayalam.
How do you use with a vengeance in a sentence?
It is said, that in the first representation of the Furies of Eschylus, the horror of the spectacle was so great, that several women miscarried; which was indeed pathos with a vengeance.
What part of speech is with a vengeance?
With a vengeance is a prepositional phrase.

Words near with a vengeance in the dictionary

  1. with a high arm
  2. with a high hand
  3. with a hook
  4. with a quickness
  5. with a thumb up one's bum
  6. with a vengeance
  7. with a view to
  8. with a wet finger
  9. with a will
  10. with ages
  11. with all due respect

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Adapted from Wiktionary: with a vengeance (page history and authors); with a vengeance (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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