revengefulness

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It is scarcely possible for them to deal with the hypocrisy and jealousy, revengefulness and cant that broke a man's life and a nation's cause.

From London Days A Book of Reminiscences by Warren, Arthur

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 Lenker, John Nicholas

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 Harte, Bret

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 Prime-Stevenson, Edward

Hence they laid at his door God's violent anger against them, blaming not the wickedness of those who had been punished, but Moses, who, they said, had excited God's revengefulness against them.

From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3 by Radin, Paul