vengefully
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.37 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a vengeful manner; vindictively, or done in vengeance.
Example Sentences
- "She, seated between her aunt and Mr. Civil (now retired from the ministry on a pension), listening to the wind (for it was autumn) howling vengefully round the porch; while this envied, bedight girl eating her manifold chocolate gifts, would merrily go forth to further triumphs, laughing at the clown, so philosophically funny, despite the cruel ringmaster's whip cuts."
- "But Josef's snake was in a state of such rage and pain that it vengefully administered a legful of lethal anaesthetic."
- "Now let’s see what Maimonides’ doctrine excludes from the imitation of God. While there are biblical passages in which God is presented as acting vengefully or angrily, these do not describe God as possessing the character trait of being an ‘avenger’ or as it were an angerer’, a person of anger. Therefore for Maimonides these descriptions are not candidates for the doctrine of imitatio dei. We are not called on to imitate God’s ‘angry’ or ‘vengeful’ acts"
Etymology
Etymology tree English vengeful Middle English -ly English -ly English vengefully From vengeful + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more vengefully (comparative)
most vengefully (superlative)