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Home Dictionary Name: revengeful Page: 2Adultery
Adultery [ad. Lat., and alter, another person], anciently termed Advowtry (quasi ad alterius thorum). The sin of incontinence between two married persons, or it may be where only one of them is married, in which case it may be called single adultery to distinguish it from the other, which has sometimes been called double.By the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857, which created a Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes (superseding the Ecclesiastical Court) which would grant to the innocent party a divorce a mensa et thoro on the ground of the other's adultery, a husband could obtain a dissolution of his marriage (before that Act, only obtainable and not infrequently obtained by a private Act of Parliament) upon the ground of his wife's adultery, and a wife could obtain a judicial separation on the ground of her husband's adultery, or a dissolution of marriage on the ground of his adultery coupled with cruelty or desertion or bigamy, or of his incestuous adultery, provided there be...
retribution
retribution : punishment imposed (as on a convicted criminal) for purposes of repayment or revenge for the wrong committed ...
nightrider
member of a secret mounted band in the southern U S after the Civil War which committed acts of intimidation and revenge...
Magnanimity
The quality of being magnanimous greatness of mind elevation or dignity of soul that quality or combination of qualities in character which enables one to encounter danger and trouble with tranquility and firmness to disdain injustice meanness and revenge and to act and sacrifice for noble objects...
Boulangism
The spirit or principles of a French political movement identified with Gen Georges Boulanger d 1891 whose militarism and advocacy of revenge on Germany attracted to him a miscellaneous party of monarchists and Republican malcontents...
retaliate
retaliate -at·ed -at·ing : to act in revenge re·tal·i·a·tion [-ta-lē-ā-shən] n re·tal·i·a·tive [-ta-lē-ā-tiv] adj re·tal·ia·to·ry [-tal-yə-tōr-ē] adj ...
malice
malice 1 a : the intention or desire to cause harm (as death, bodily injury, or property damage) to another through an unlawful or wrongful act without justification or excuse b : wanton disregard for the rights of others or for the value of human life c : an improper or evil motive or purpose [if cannot be proved or a benign purpose can be imagined "David Kairys"] d : actual malice in this entry actual malice 1 : malice proved by evidence to exist or have existed in one that inflicts unjustified harm on another: as a : an intent to injure or kill b : malice called also express malice malice in fact 2 a : the knowledge that defamatory statements esp. regarding a public figure are false b : reckless disregard of the truth see also public figure New York Times Co. v. Sullivan in the Important Cases section implied malice : malice inferred from the nature or consequences of a harmful act done without justification or excuse ;also : malice inferred from subjective awarenes...
Vim vi repellere licet, modo fiat moderamine inculpat' tutel'; non ad sumendam vindictam, sed ad propulsandam injuriam
Vim vi repellere licet, modo fiat moderamine inculpat' tutel'; non ad sumendam vindictam, sed ad propulsandam injuriam. Co. Litt. 162.-(It is lawful to repel force by force, so as it be done with the moderation of blameless defence; not to take revenge, but to repel injury.)...
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