[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

vengeance \venge"ance\, n. f. vengeance, fr. venger to avenge,
   l. vindicare to lay claim to, defend, avenge, fr. vindex a
   claimant, defender, avenger, the first part of which is of
   uncertain origin, and the last part akin to dicere to say.
   see diction, and cf. avenge, revenge, vindicate.
   1. punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an
      offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate
      or unrestrained revenge.
      1913 webster

            to me belongeth vengeance and recompense. --deut.
                                                  xxxii. 35.
      1913 webster

            to execute fierce vengeance on his foes. --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. harm; mischief. obs. --shak.
      1913 webster

   what a vengeance, or what the vengeance, what --
      emphatically. obs. "but what a vengeance makes thee
      fly" --hudibras. "what the vengeance could he not speak
      'em fair?" --shak.

   with a vengeance,
      a with great violence; as, to strike with a vengeance.
          colloq.
      b with even greater intensity; as, to return one's
          insult with a vengeance.
          1913 webster + pjc
see also:
diction avenge revenge vindicate what a vengeance what the vengeance 
with a vengeance 

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