Meaning of with a vengeance | Babel Free

Definitions

With an intense motivation; in an extreme, intense, or violent manner.

idiomatic

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Examples

“With which intolerable pains if the party shriek or cry out, they roar out as loud to him to confess the truth, or else he shall come down with a vengeance.”

“Yes, egad, they are tenacious of reputation with a vengeance, for they don't choose anybody should have a character but themselves!”

“It is said, that in the first representation of the Furies of Eschylus, the horror of the spectacle was so great, that several women miscarried; which was indeed pathos with a vengeance.”

“They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.”

“From the first, she is the New Woman with a vengeance, loving nothing better than a chair, whisky, cigars and a detective story.”

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