Vengeance
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Middle English: from Old French, from venger, vengier ‘avenge’, from Latin vindicare ‘vindicate’.
wiktionary
From Anglo-Norman vengeaunce, from Old French vengeance, venjance, from vengier(“to avenge”). Analysable as venge + -ance
etymonline
vengeance (n.)
c. 1300, from Anglo-French vengeaunce, Old French vengeance, venjance "revenge, retribution" (12c.), from vengier "take revenge," from Latin vindicare "assert a claim, claim as one's own; avenge, punish" (see vindicate).
Vengeance is mine, ... saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink; for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head. [Paul to the Romans, xii:19-20]
