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Etymology tree English vengeful Middle English -ly English -ly English vengefully From vengeful + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a vengeful manner; vindictively, or done in vengeance.
   • Now let’s see what Maimonides’ doctrine excludes from the imitation of God. While there are biblical passages in which God is presented as acting vengefully or angrily, these do not describe God as possessing the character trait of being an ‘avenger’ or as it were an angerer’, a person of anger. Therefore for Maimonides these descriptions are not candidates for the doctrine of imitatio dei. We are not called on to imitate God’s ‘angry’ or ‘vengeful’ acts 2017, Jerome Gellman, “Gender and Mystical Experience of God”, in Mystical Experience of God: A Philosophical Inquiry (Ashgate Philosophy of Religion Series), Aldershot, Hampshire; Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 121:
   • But Josef's snake was in a state of such rage and pain that it vengefully administered a legful of lethal anaesthetic. 2011, Louis de Bernières, The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman, page 313:
   • She, seated between her aunt and Mr. Civil (now retired from the ministry on a pension), listening to the wind (for it was autumn) howling vengefully round the porch; while this envied, bedight girl eating her manifold chocolate gifts, would merrily go forth to further triumphs, laughing at the clown, so philosophically funny, despite the cruel ringmaster's whip cuts. 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 185:

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