vengeance

• n.復讐；報復；リベンジ

古フランス語のvengier「復讐」、vengeance「復讐」から。語源はvindication「報復」、vendetta「復讐」と同じ。

vengeance

vengeance: see vindicate

vengeance (n.)

c. 1300, from Anglo-French vengeaunce, Old French vengeance, venjance "revenge, retribution" (12c.), from vengier "take revenge," from Latin vindicare "assert a claim, claim as one's own; avenge, punish" (see vindicate).

Vengeance is mine, ... saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink; for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head. [Paul to the Romans, xii:19-20]

1. He vowed to wreak vengeance on his unfaithful，thieving wife.

彼は自分に不忠で盗み好きな妻に復讐することを誓った。

2.Not all acts of vengeance are of equal gravity.

すべての報復行為が同等に悪いわけではありません。

3.It began to rain again with a vengeance .

また大雨が降り出した。

4.a desire for vengeance

復讐心

5.She is determined to wreak vengeance on those who killed her cousin.

彼女は従妹を殺した犯人に復讐することを決意した。