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vengefulness en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English vengeful Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English vengefulness From vengeful + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being vengeful
    • To this day his reason has never recovered from that shock; a wild nightmare of vengefulness has possessed him ever since, and he has almost bankrupted his native ingenuities in inventing pains and miseries and humiliations and heartbreaks wherewith to embitter the brief lives of Adam's descendants. c. 1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter VI:
    • The vengefulness of the king was legendary.

Relateds

vengefully · vengeful

Translations (5)

th ความอาฆาต (state or quality of being vengeful) · nl wraakzucht (state or quality of being vengeful) · th ความพยาบาท (state or quality of being vengeful) · pt vingatividade (state or quality of being vengeful) · tr intikamcılık (state or quality of being vengeful)