Noun

Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.

* 2000 , (Gladiator) (film):

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.

Desire for revenge.

* (Charles Dickens), (Little Dorrit) :

Thereupon full of anger, full of jealousy, full of vengeance , she forms

* 2008 , Jean Harvey Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography (ISBN 0393075680):

If her husband was all forgiveness, asking the bands to play “Dixie,” she was full of vengeance

* 2011 , James Calloway, Black America, Not in This America (ISBN 1462868576):

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.

Noun

(en-noun)

Alert watchfulness.

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Close and continuous attention.

* 1837 March 4, (Andrew Jackson), Farewell Address

But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.