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单词 in revenge for
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in revenge for (also of)
P1. in revenge for (also of): in return or retaliation for; (formerly also) †in recompense for (obsolete).
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society > authority > punishment > retributive punishment > as retributive punishment for [phrase]
in wrake ofc1480
in revenge for (also of)1553
in (or for) wreak ofa1596
the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > reward or a reward > as reward or in recompense [phrase]
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to meeding?a1300
in revenge for (also of)1553
for one's painsa1563
the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > in revenge or retaliation (for) [phrase]
in wrake ofc1480
in revenge for (also of)1553
in (or for) wreak ofa1596
1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. H.iiij Other Kinges..in reuenge therof, came to the town where the Spaniardes lay, which they ouercame & burnt.
1596 A. Munday tr. 1st Pt. Palmerin of Eng. l Palmerin delivered the castle againe to Dramcisiand, who both in revenge of his worthinesse, and memorie of his owne good lucke called it the Invisible Fort of Fortune.
1597 G. Markham tr. G. Pétau de Maulette Deuoreux f. 15 [He] Should in reuenge for their impietie Raine sharpe destruction.
1661 Cure for Cuckold iv. i. sig. F This fellow in revenge for this, informs against the Bawd that kept the house.
1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 391 Destroyed in revenge of so great a danger.
1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 152 Our Men that discovered him, shot him in Revenge of the Mischief he had done.
1760 C. Lennox Lady's Museum I. 724 Sir Charles, either following the motions of his natural inconstancy, or in revenge of her supposed contempt of him, had married Harriot.
1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. iv. 79 In revenge for this epistle, Hogarth caricaturaed Churchill under the form of a canonical bear.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 356 Fire will burn his lamp-like eyes In revenge of such a feast!
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. viii. 287 In revenge for a jesting and not very intelligible ballad sung against him.
1873 B. Harte Mliss iv. 11/1 This was done in revenge of what she considered a second figurative obtrusion of Clytie's excellences upon her.
1918 Munsey's Mag. Dec. 422/2 Nothing would be gained for civilization by wrecking it in revenge for the deliberate desecration of the cathedral of Rheims.
1960 R. Duffell tr. K. Birket-Smith Primitive Man & his Ways 187 Most battles were purely in revenge of some earlier assault.
2003 Metro (London ed.) 19 Sept. 25/1 Pfeiffer plays an artist, Ingrid, who falls for a schmuck and takes the step of poisoning him in revenge for his infidelity.
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