revengefulness

Example Sentences

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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

And Auriole with the disposition to like him better than any man of her acquaintance suffered an entire reversal of feeling and went headlong to the other extreme in a spirit of unbecoming revengefulness.

From Men of Affairs by Pertwee, Roland

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

Keep us from unbelief and despair and revengefulness.

From Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Luther, Martin

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