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Vengefulness

noun

A malevolent desire for revenge. Synonym: vindictiveness.

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... and malice wholly drove away the searching curiosity which had possessed the old man's features. For a time he plainly planned some work of bitter vengefulness. Then, with shaking head, he evidently abandoned the ...

— In Old Kentucky • Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey

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... whose skill was only a little less than that of the males and who were even more ruthless in all feeling toward the enemy. And still easily chief among these, conspicuous by her noisy and uncaring demeanor of mingled alarm and vengefulness, was the raging Moonface. She rushed up close beside her husband's defending group and still hurled stones and hurled them most effectively. They went as if from a catapult, and more than one bone or ...

— The Story of Ab - A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man • Stanley Waterloo

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... of Lincoln's brief vengefulness, Stanton thought that his time for clearing scores with McClellan had come. He even picked out the man who was to be rushed over other men's heads to the command of the army of the Potomac. General Hitchcock, an accomplished soldier of the regular army, a grandson of Ethan ...

— Lincoln • Nathaniel Wright Stephenson

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Words linked to "Vengefulness" : malignity, vengeful, malevolence