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Meanings of vengefulness in English

Portuguese
vingatividade
Spanish
rencor

A malevolent desire for revenge.

        vingatividade

        The disposition of being vengeful; expressing a strong wish to punish someone who has harmed you.

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                Usage of vengefulness in English
                1
                I knew Phorenice's vengefulness, and had a high value for her cleverness.
                The Lost Continent
                2
                This he thought in the vengefulness of his outraged mind.
                Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
                3
                The other is the growing culture of public vengefulness.
                The Irish Times
                4
                The treatment of the first Mrs Kent could have stirred her youngest daughter into vengefulness.
                The suspicions of mr. whicher: a shocking murder and the undoing...
                5
                Their vengefulness and their severe exactions caused them to lose the fruits of their victory.
                A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6
                6
                There wasn't a particle of vengefulness about Miss Hastings.
                The Early Bird: A Business Man's Love Story
                7
                And America detected that in him, along with the bonhomie and vengefulness, the insouciance and impulsivity.
                The way of the world
                8
                Among the crowds tales more and more wonderful were related of the vengefulness of the Christian God.
                Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero
                9
                These proceedings had all the cold vengefulness of a death-sentence, and the cruelty of a sentence of exile.
                Lord Jim
                10
                During this period of Lincoln's brief vengefulness, Stanton thought that his time for clearing scores with McClellan had come.
                Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Spri...
                11
                What was there in him, still, that justified such persistent effort on life's part, such stubbornness, or perhaps just vengefulness?
                To the end of the land
                12
                Under the influence of his methodical preparations, his emotions had cooled appreciably, taking on a cast of cold malignant vengefulness.
                The Lone Wolf: A Melodrama
                13
                It is vengefulness, lust of destruction, that tempts the Austrian aeroplanes across the Adriatic-theessential spirit of the barbarian which the
                The World Decision
                14
                Any one who could have studied the vengefulness of his face would have seen that it boded ill for some one.
                The Romance of Elaine / Sequel to "Exploits of Elaine"
                15
                Where once was a funny, charming, and clever person, there was now just a desiccated husk of anger, bitterness and vengefulness.
                The Irish Times
                16
                She would kill in an instant were it not that her vengefulness is overcome by gratitude to the benefactress of her mother.
                Chapters of Opera / Being historical and critical observations a...
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                Portuguese
                vingatividade
                Vengefulness through the time