Vengeance vs Vindication - What's the difference?
vengeance | vindication |
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):
The act of vindicating]] or the state of being [[vindicate, vindicated.
Evidence, facts, statements, or arguments that justify a claim or belief.
As nouns the difference between vengeance and vindication
is that vengeance is revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong while vindication is the act of vindicating or the state of being vindicated.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.