different between vengeance vs venge

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English vengen, from Old French venger, from Latin vindicare (“to avenge, vindicate”).

Verb

venge (third-person singular simple present venges, present participle venging, simple past and past participle venged)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To avenge; to punish; to revenge.

Related terms

• avenge
• revenge
• vengeance
• vengeful

Derived terms

• venger

Further reading

• venge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• venge in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• venge at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Negev

French

Verb

venge

1. first-person singular present indicative of venger
2. third-person singular present indicative of venger
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of venger
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of venger
5. second-person singular imperative of venger