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A hero who skipped therapy and went straight to vengeance.
means Someone who inflicts punishment or harm on behalf of a wrong done to themselves or another.
from From Old French 'avengier,' built on Latin 'vindicare' — to claim, vindicate, or avenge — the same root that gives us 'vindictive' and 'vindicate.' The 'a-' prefix is an intensifier, so the word literally pushes 'vindicate' toward action: not just proving the wrong, but settling it.
- origin
- from old french meaning to vindicate
- marvel boost
- word usage spiked hard after 1963 comic
- legal cousin
- vigilante, minus the spandex budget
- motive
- justice with a grudge attached