Word Meanings - AVENGEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken. Milton.

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• INFLICT
  To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a dagger; to inflict severe pain by ingratitude; to inflict
• INFLICTION
  1. The act of inflicting or imposing; as, the infliction of torment, or of punishment. 2. That which is inflicted or imposed, as punishment, disgrace, calamity, etc. His severest inflictions are in themselves acts of justice and righteousness.
• INFLICTER
  One who inflicts. Godis the sole and immadiate inflicter of such strokes. South.
• SATISFACTION
  1. The act of satisfying, or the state of being satisfied; gratification of desire; contentment in possession and enjoyment; repose of mind resulting from compliance with its desires or demands. The mind having a power to suspend the execution
• RETRIBUTIVE; RETRIBUTORY
  Of or pertaining to retribution; of the nature of retribution; involving retribution or repayment; as, retributive justice; retributory comforts.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• PUNISHMENT
  A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention. (more info) 1. The act of punishing. 2. Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• TAKEN
  p. p. of Take.
• INFLICTIVE
  Causing infliction; acting as an infliction. Whitehead.
• UNSATISFACTION
  Dissatisfaction. Bp. Hall.
• MISTAKEN
  1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
• INSATISFACTION
  1. Insufficiency; emptiness. Bacon. 2. Dissatisfaction. Sir T. Browne.
• OUTTAKEN
  or prep. Excepted; save. Wyclif. Chaucer.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• DISSATISFACTION
  The state of being dissatisfied, unsatisfied, or discontented; uneasiness proceeding from the want of gratification, or from disappointed wishes and expectations. The ambitious man has little happiness, but is subject to much uneasiness
• MISTAKENLY
  By mistake. Goldsmith.
• SELF-SATISFACTION
  The quality or state of being self-satisfied.
• MISTAKENNESS
  Erroneousness.