revengefulness
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By a Heart, her enmity arises in jealousy or vanity or in revengefulness or natural malice.
From The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note by Edward Prime-Stevenson
The destructive emotions of fear, worry, anger, jealousy, revengefulness, envy, etc., actually poison the fluids and tissues of the body.
From Nature Cure by Henry Lindlahr
Anger and censure prompted by sincere love are very different from the wrath, hatred and revengefulness of the world, which seeks only its own interests and is unwilling to tolerate any opposition to its pleasure.
From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by John Nicholas Lenker
Through all her extravagance, envy, and revengefulness he saw the central truth—that he had been deceived—not by his wife, but by himself!
From Clarence by Bret Harte
The former was as famous for his power and riches, his envy and revengefulness, as was the latter for his strength and gentleness, his sympathy and tenderness.
From The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries by Mór Jókai
