avengeance†, sweet revenge, vendetta, death feud, blood for blood
retaliation &c 718; day of reckoning.
rancor, vindictiveness, implacability; malevolence &c 907;
ruthlessness &c 914.1.
avenger, vindicator, Nemesis, Eumenides.
V. revenge, avenge; vindicate; take one's revenge, have one's revenge;
breathe revenge, breathe vengeance; wreak one's vengeance, wreak one's
anger.
have accounts to settle, have a crow to pluck, have a bone to
pick, have a rod in pickle.
keep the wound green; harbor revenge, harbor vindictive feeling;
bear malice; rankle, rankle in the breast.
Adj. revengeful, vengeful; vindictive, rancorous; pitiless &c 914.1;
ruthless, rigorous, avenging.
unforgiving, unrelenting; inexorable, stony-hearted, implacable;
relentless, remorseless.
aeternum servans sub pectore vulnus [Lat.]; rankling; immitigable.
Phr. manet ciratrix [Lat.], manet alid mente repostum [Lat.]; dies irae
dies illa [Lat.]; in high vengeance there is noble scorn [G.
Eliot]; inhumanum verbum est ultio [Lat.] [Seneca]; malevolus
animus abditos dentes habet [Syrus]; now infidel I have thee on the hip
[Merchant of Venice].