revengefulness
Example Sentences
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They do not, as has been commonly supposed, express the indignation and revengefulness of God.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
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
My dear young lady," said Mr. Lavender soothingly, "you are not—you cannot be revengeful; for every great writer and speaker tells us that revengefulness is an emotion alien to the Allies, who are merely just.
From The Burning Spear by John Galsworthy
The whole Corsican character, with its stern love of justice, its furious revengefulness and wild passion for freedom, seems to be illustrated by the peculiar elements of grandeur and desolation in this landscape.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
The last thing of which he was conscious was the satanic revengefulness of her eyes.
From The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall
