vengeance

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman vengeaunce, from Old French vengeance, venjance, from vengier (“to avenge”). Analysable as venge + -ance.

noun

1. Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.
   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. 2000, Gladiator (film)
   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. Hannity: "Vengeance is mine saith the Lord", quoted in a very famous book. April 5, 2022, 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
2. Desire for revenge.
   If her husband was all forgiveness, asking the bands to play “Dixie,” she was full of vengeance […] 2008, Jean Harvey Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography
   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. 2011, James Calloway, Black America, Not in This America