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with a vengeance en · ADP

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  1. (idiomatic) With an intense motivation; in an extreme, intense, or violent manner.
    • It is said, that in the first representation of the Furies of Eschylus, the horror of the spectacle was so great, that several women miscarried; which was indeed pathos with a vengeance. 1779, “Miscellaneous Essays: From Dr. Beattie's Essay on Music and Poetry”, in Edmund Burke, editor, The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1778, London: Dodsley:
    • With which intolerable pains if the party shriek or cry out, they roar out as loud to him to confess the truth, or else he shall come down with a vengeance. 1651, Samuel Clarke, A General Martyrologie, Underhill (London), ch. 27 "The Original Progress and Practice of the Spanish Inquisition," p. 209
    • They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance. 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
    • Yes, egad, they are tenacious of reputation with a vengeance, for they don't choose anybody should have a character but themselves! 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal:
    • From the first, she is the New Woman with a vengeance, loving nothing better than a chair, whisky, cigars and a detective story. 1966 Sep, Charles A. Berst, “Propaganda and Art in Mrs Warren's Profession”, in ELH, volume 33, number 3, page 404:

Synonyms

intensely (as an adverb) · violently (as an adverb) · intense (modifying a noun postpositively) · with a will (as an adverb)

Translations (4)

ru со всей ду́ри (with intense motivation) · de mit aller Macht (with intense motivation) · ru со всей си́лы (with intense motivation) · nl uit alle macht (with intense motivation)