Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Revenge; vengeance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Vengeance; revenge.

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  • noun obsolete vengeance; revenge

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Examples

  • Brandenburg v. Ohio, the Supreme Court unanimously reversed a criminal conviction of a Ku Klux Klan leader who -- surrounded by hooded indivduals holding weapons -- gave a speech threatening "revengeance" against any government official who "continues to suppress the white, Caucasian race."

    Bill of Rights Defense Committee - Headlines 2010

  • At the rally, references were made to the possibility of "revengeance" against

    Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com 2009

  • At the rally, references were made to the possibility of "revengeance" against

    Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com 2009

  • "What I promised war not ter visit no revengeance on ther wrong fellers," he corrected.

    A Pagan of the Hills Charles Neville Buck 1904

  • Dey tells me dat somebody 'cross dar in Jasper county tuck'n kotch a Tarrypin w'ich he got marks cut in he back dat 'uz put dar' fo 'our folks went fer ter git revengeance in de Moccasin war.

    Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • Dey tells me dat somebody 'cross dar in Jasper county tuck'n kotch a Tarrypin w'ich he got marks cut in he back dat 'uz put dar' fo 'our folks went fer ter git revengeance in de Moccasin war.

    Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • He strak he cane down 'pun de groun', en do lak he gwine take he revengeance out'n po 'ole Brer Tarrypin.

    Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • He strak he cane down 'pun de groun', en do lak he gwine take he revengeance out'n po 'ole Brer Tarrypin.

    Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • Also, In Brandenburg v. Ohio, a KKK leader was prosecuted for giving a speech at a farm outside of Cincinnati in which he warned that "if our president, our Congress, our Supreme Court, continues to suppress the white, Caucasian race, it's possible that there might be some revengeance taken." the U.S.

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  • Ohio, we reversed the conviction of a Ku Klux Klan leader for threatening “revengeance” if the “suppression” of the white race continued; we relied on “the principle that the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » First Amendment Protects Disclosure of Name and Address of Juror, Together With Condemnation of Juror, on Racist Web Site: 2009

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