All 5 Uses of
vengeance
in
King Lear
- If it be true, all vengeance comes too short Which can pursue the offender.†
Scene 2.1 *vengeance = the act of taking revenge
- Vengeance!†
Scene 2.4
- Never, Regan: She hath abated me of half my train; Look'd black upon me; struck me with her tongue, Most serpent-like, upon the very heart:— All the stor'd vengeances of heaven fall On her ingrateful top!†
Scene 2.4
- All cruels else subscrib'd:—but I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such children.†
Scene 3.7vengeance = the act of taking revenge
- If you see vengeance,— First Serv.†
Scene 3.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(vengeance as in: vengeance is mine) the act of taking revenge
(Revenge means to harm someone to get them back for something harmful that they have done.) -
(2)
(with a vengeance as in: with a vengeance) with intensity