different between fury vs vengeance

English

Etymology 1

From Old French furie, from Latin furia (“rage”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?fj???i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?fj??i/
• Rhymes: -???i

Noun

fury (countable and uncountable, plural furies)

1. Extreme anger.
2. Strength or violence in action.
3. An angry or malignant person.

Derived terms

• furious

Translations

Etymology 2

Latin fur (“thief”).

Noun

fury (plural furies)

1. (obsolete) A thief.

   • Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fu.r?/

Noun

fury f

1. inflection of fura:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

English

Alternative forms

• vengeaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman vengeaunce, from Old French vengeance, venjance, from vengier (“to avenge”). Analysable as venge +? -ance

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?n?d??ns/
• Rhymes: -?nd??ns

Noun

vengeance (countable and uncountable, plural vengeances)

1. Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.
   • 2000, Gladiator (film):

     My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North; General of the Felix Legions; loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius; father to a murdered son; husband to a murdered wife; and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

2. Desire for revenge.
   • c. 1856, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit:

     Thereupon full of anger, full of jealousy, full of vengeance, she forms […] a scheme of retribution, […]

   • 2008, Jean Harvey Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography ?ISBN:

     If her husband was all forgiveness, asking the bands to play “Dixie,” she was full of vengeance […]

   • 2011, James Calloway, Black America, Not in This America ?ISBN:

     Are they full of vengeance[?], because they say that people with vengeance in their hearts must dig two graves, one for their enemy and the other for themselves.

Synonyms

• reprisal
• retaliation
• retribution
• revenge
• wreak
• See also Thesaurus:revenge

Antonyms

• reconciliation

Related terms

• venge
• venger
• vengeful

Translations

French

Etymology

venger +? -ance

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??.???s/
• Rhymes: -??s
• Homophone: vengeances
• Hyphenation: ven?geance

Noun

vengeance f (plural vengeances)

1. revenge, vengeance

Derived terms

• la vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid

Further reading

• “vengeance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Noun

vengeance f (oblique plural vengeances, nominative singular vengeance, nominative plural vengeances)

1. Alternative form of venjance