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"ref": "1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 28:",
"text": "All the gods have mocked at prayer. This sin must now be punished by the vengeance of men.",
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"ref": "2000, Gladiator (film)",
"text": "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."
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"ref": "2022 April 5, Sean Hannity, Sean Penn, 22:33 from the start, in Sean Penn joins Sean Hannity to discuss Russian invasion of Ukraine (Hannity), Fox News, archived from the original on 2022-04-11:",
"text": "Penn: I don't want to invest in the conversation, not that I don't have it privately, about my feelings about what direct action should happen to a leader who does that, but if there is a God, there will be vengeance beyond all possible comprehension.\nHannity: \"Vengeance is mine saith the Lord\", quoted in a very famous book.",
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"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong",
"word": "whakakaitoa"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "venjança"
},
{
"code": "os",
"english": "mast isyn",
"lang": "Ossetian",
"sense": "revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong",
"word": "маст исын"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "enteqâm",
"sense": "revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong",
"word": "انتقام"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Rach"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "odwet"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pomsta"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zemsta"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vingança"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "răzbunare"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mestʹ",
"sense": "revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "месть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mščénije",
"sense": "revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "мще́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vozdajánije",
"sense": "revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "воздая́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "revánš",
"sense": "revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "рева́нш"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dìoghaltas"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "aicheamhail"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pomsta"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "venganza"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong",
"word": "hämnd"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong",
"word": "intikam"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong",
"word": "öç"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pómsta",
"sense": "revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "по́мста"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong",
"word": "sự trả thù"
}
],
"word": "vengeance"
}
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