Redemption vs Vengeance - What's the difference?
redemption | vengeance |
the act of redeeming or something redeemed
the recovery, for a fee, of a pawned article
salvation from sin
rescue upon payment of a ransom
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 redemption and vengeance
is that redemption is the act of redeeming or something redeemed while vengeance is revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.redemption
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(wikipedia redemption)Noun
Derived terms
* beyond redemption * past redemption * redemption fatigue * redemption price * redemption valuevengeance
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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.