Bible Dictionaries
Revenge

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. t.) To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.

(2):

(v. i.) To take vengeance; - with

(3):

(n.) The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.

(4):

(v. t.) To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; - followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer.

(5):

(n.) The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Revenge'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​r/revenge.html. 1828.