#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


