Definition of "vengeance" []

• Infliction of punishment in return for a wrong committed; retribution. (noun)
• With a vengeance With great violence or force. (idiom)
• With a vengeance To an extreme degree: December has turned cold with a vengeance. (idiom)

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• "And 'vengeance' is used by the highest authorities."
• "This assigns the reason why He has thus destroyed the foe (Zep 3: 8). my redeemed -- My people to be redeemed. day ... year -- here, as in Isa 34: 8; 61: 2, the time of "vengeance" is described as a "day"; that of grace and of "recompense" to the"
• "Avenging something or someone implies that you have been a victim of outrages and vengeance is required."