Reprisal vs Avenge - What's the difference?
reprisal | avenge |
An act of retaliation.
(archaic) Something taken from an enemy in retaliation.
(archaic) The act of taking something from an enemy by way of retaliation or indemnity.
* Macaulay
To take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
* Milton
(obsolete) To take vengeance.
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(archaic) To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.
* Bishop Hall
In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between reprisal and avenge
is that reprisal is (archaic) the act of taking something from an enemy by way of retaliation or indemnity while avenge is (archaic) to treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.As nouns the difference between reprisal and avenge
is that reprisal is an act of retaliation while avenge is a vengeance; a revenge.As a verb avenge is
to take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.reprisal
English
Noun
(en noun)- debatable ground, on which incursions and reprisals continued to take place
Synonyms
* See alsoavenge
English
Verb
- to avenge the murder of his brother
- Avenge , O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones / Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold.
- Thou shalt not avenge , nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
- thy judgment in avenging thine enemies