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Justice that got personal and skipped the paperwork.
means Punishment inflicted on someone in return for a wrong, driven by a desire to hurt them back rather than by law.
from From Old French 'vengeance,' built on the verb 'venger' (to avenge), which traces to Latin 'vindicare' — to claim, avenge, or set free, the root that also gives us 'vindicate' and 'vindictive.' Latin 'vindicare' itself leans on 'vim dicare,' roughly 'to show force' or 'assert a claim,' tying vengeance etymologically to the raw idea of asserting one's own power over a wrong rather than handing it to a judge.
- legal cousin
- justice claims impartiality, vengeance never pretends to
- old testament line
- 'vengeance is mine' — originally meant as a warning, not permission
- psychology
- revenge rarely delivers the closure people expect
- etymology twist
- shares a root with vindictive, vindicate, and avenge