vindicˈtivolencenonce-wd. [f. L. vindicta vengeance, after malevolence.] The desire of revenging oneself or of taking vengeance. 1865J. Grote Moral Ideals (1876) 261 Ill-will is perhaps always a form or mode of vindictivolence, i.e. is connected with a feeling of ourselves as somehow wronged.