Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

     #919.  Revenge. —­ N. revenge, revengement[obs3]; vengeance;
avengement[obs3], avengeance|, sweet revenge, vendetta, death feud, blood for blood retaliation &c. 718; day of reckoning.
     rancor, vindictiveness, implacability; malevolence &c. 907;
ruthlessness &c. 914a.
     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. 914a;
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][obs3]; 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 [Lat][obs3][Syrus]; “now infidel I have thee on the hip” [Merchant of Venice].

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     #920.  Jealousy.—­ N. jealousy,jealousness; jaundiced eye; envious
suspicion, suspicion; “green-eyed monster” [Othello]; yellows; Juno. 
     V. be jealous &c. adj.; view with jealousy, view with a jealous eye. 
     Adj. jealous, jealous as a barbary pigeon[obs3]; jaundiced, yellow-
eyed, envious, hornmad.

     #921.  Envy. —­ N. envy; enviousness &c. adj.; rivalry; jalousie de
milier[Fr]; illwill, spite. 
     V. envy, covet, burst with envy. 
     Adj. envious, invidious, covetous; alieni appetens[Lat]. 
     Phr. “base envy withers at another’s joy” [Thomson]; caeca invidia
est [Lat][Livy]; multa petentibus desunt multa [Lat][Horace]; summa petit livor [Lat][Ovid].

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     #922.  Right. —­ N. right; what ought to be, what should be; fitness
&c. adj.; summum jus[Lat].
     justice, equity; equitableness &c. adj.; propriety; fair play,
impartiality, measure for measure, give and take, lex talionis[Lat]. 
     Astraea[obs3], Nemesis, Themis.
     scales of justice, evenhanded justice, karma; suum cuique[Lat]; clear
stage, fair field and no favor, level playing field.
     morals &c. (duty) 926; law &c. 963; honor &c. (probity) 939; virtue
&c. 944. 
     V. be right &c. adj.; stand to reason.
     see justice done, see one righted, see fair play; do justice to;
recompense &c. (reward) 973; bold the scales even, give and take; serve one right, put the saddle on the right horse; give every one his due, give the

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