Vĕn'geance, n.

n. [Fr. vengeance, Pr. venjansa, Sp. venganza, Pg. vingaça, It. vengianza. See supra.] Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or offense; retribution; — often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge. “To execute fierce vengeance on his foes.” Milton.

To me belongeth vengeance and recompense. Deut. xxxii. 35.

What a vengeance, what! emphatically. [Obs.] “But what a vengeance makes thee fly!” Hudibras. — With a vengeance, with great violence or vehemence; as, to strike one with a vengeance.