Vengeance vs Mercy - What's the difference?
vengeance | mercy |
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):
(uncountable) relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another
(uncountable) forgiveness or compassion, especially toward those less fortunate.
(uncountable) A tendency toward forgiveness, pity, or compassion
(countable) Instances of forbearance or forgiveness.
A blessing, something to be thankful for.
(phrasal) Subjugation, power.
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As a noun vengeance
is revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.As a proper noun mercy is
, one of the less common puritan virtue names.vengeance
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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.