Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Revenge

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Revenge


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(1):

(v. t.) To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.

(2):

(v. i.) To take vengeance; -- with

(3):

(n.) The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.

(4):

(v. t.) To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer.

(5):

(n.) The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury.