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- noun Plural form of
revenge .
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Examples
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And when this strain, on his recovery, unites with the streams of repentance and love, it produces that serene renunciation of the world, with its power and glory and resentments and revenges, which is expressed in the speech (V. iii.):
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893
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It would seem the whirligig of time does not, alas, bring its revenges.
Vicky Ward: The Whirligig of Time Fails to Bring Its Revenges Vicky Ward 2011
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And you don't want to find out what revenges the politicians would have to exact to cover themselves for a second rescue of the financial system.
Memo to Europe: Forget the War Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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It would seem the whirligig of time does not, alas, bring its revenges.
Vicky Ward: The Whirligig of Time Fails to Bring Its Revenges Vicky Ward 2011
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And where he was, surely he would bring with him his perverse treasure of bitterness and hatred, and hoard up his revenges.
A River So Long 2010
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This is not an arena in which to enact your petty revenges.
Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010
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There could be revenges later, there could be another repayment to be made in requital of this one, but now what he needed was his freedom.
His Disposition 2010
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And by the time we get that answer, he thought, eyeing Yves's lowering brows and set jaw tolerantly, revenges may well have gone by the board, no longer of any significance.
A River So Long 2010
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He promised to make El Salvador "the most dynamic economy in Central America .... to be the president of social change and reconstruction (and) leave behind the revenges of the past."
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They need to weaken Jalapeno, but Dork Vader is still caught up in his old ego-driven revenges.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor Tocantins: Lies and Whispers 2009
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