venge

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Novelist Roald Dahl has adapted his short story William and Mary, about the eerie re venge of a browbeaten wife, as the first offering in a new series intended to exploit eccentric stories.

From Time Magazine Archive

The next year she took her re venge in Fort Lauderdale by humiliating King 6-1, 6-0.

From Time Magazine Archive

That others do, I was about to say, enjoy your—But It is an office of the gods to venge it, Not mine to speak on't.

From Cymbeline by Shakespeare, William

For the law indifferently doth punish euery man, that without the Magistrates order taketh authority to venge his own wrong.

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by Painter, William

He reminds me of the somber words of "Ahasvérus:"   "Vous qui manquez de charité,   Tremblez à mon supplice étrange:   Ce n'est point sa divinité,   C'est l'humanité que Dieu venge!"

From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.