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revengeful, a.|rɪˈvɛndʒfʊl|
[f. revenge n. + -ful.]
Full of revenge; vindictive.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. (1605) 345 Her words were choakt vp with the rising of her reuengefull heart. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, iv. i. 50 If I do not, may my hands rot off, And neuer brandish more reuengefull Steele. 1613― Hen. VIII, i. i. 109 You know his Nature, That he's Reuengefull. 1649E. Reynolds Hosea iii. 45 These Lascivious or Revengefull speeches. 1728Morgan Algiers ii. iv. 276 The revengeful Traytor amply discovered who were Ring-Leaders of the Plot. 1771in Ann. Reg. (1772) 196/1, I hope my countrymen will not think me a man of revengeful disposition. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 106 By..the downcast look of dark and revengeful resolve. 1848Macaulay Biog., Atterbury, No creature is so revengeful as a proud man who has humbled himself in vain. 1884Truth 13 Mar. 377/2 Having borrowed money from a revengeful clerk on a forged bill.
Hence reˈvengefully adv.
1645Milton Tetrach. Wks. 1851 IV. 227 Though for the most part maliciously, covetously, rigourously, revengefully. 1670Devout Commun. (1688) 117, I have dealt heinously, thou art revengefully smitten. 1898Westm. Gaz. 15 June 6/3 The notion that the Secret Police and not the Nihilists..are acting revengefully. |