Feud vs Vengeance - What's the difference?
feud | vengeance |
A state of long-standing mutual hostility.
(professional wrestling slang) A staged rivalry between wrestlers.
(obsolete) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
To carry on a feud.
Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.
* 2000 , (Gladiator) (film):
Desire for revenge.
* (Charles Dickens), (Little Dorrit) :
* 2008 , Jean Harvey Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography (ISBN 0393075680):
* 2011 , James Calloway, Black America, Not in This America (ISBN 1462868576):
As nouns the difference between feud and vengeance
is that feud is a state of long-standing mutual hostility while vengeance is revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.As a verb feud
is to carry on a feud.feud
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fede, feide, , ultimately from the same Germanic source. Related to (l), (l).Alternative forms
* fede (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- ''You couldn't call it a feud exactly, but there had always been a chill between Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.
Verb
(en verb)- ''The two men began to feud after one of them got a job promotion and the other thought he was more qualified.
Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) feodum.Alternative forms
* feodSynonyms
* fee * fiefvengeance
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Alternative forms
* vengeaunceNoun
- 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.
- Thereupon full of anger, full of jealousy, full of vengeance , she forms
- If her husband was all forgiveness, asking the bands to play “Dixie,” she was full of vengeance
- 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.