spirit of revenge
collocation in Englishmeaningsofspiritandrevenge
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spirit
noun
uk/ˈspɪr.ɪt/us/ˈspɪr.ət/
a particular way of thinking, feeling, or behaving, especially a way that is typical of a particular group of people, an activity, a time, or ...
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revenge
noun[U]
uk/rɪˈvendʒ/us/rɪˈvendʒ/
harm done to someone as a punishment for harm that they have done to ...
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(Definition ofspiritandrevengefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We say resolutely that such ghastly crimes shall be visited with appropriate punishment, not in thespiritofrevengebut in the spirit of justice.
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I do not quote these cases in anyspiritofrevenge.
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It was thespiritofrevengein 1918 which put millions of our people out of employment, some of them for 10 or 15 years.
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It is thespiritofrevengeand hostility.
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It is the natural instinct of human nature to protest, and oven to do wrong, in aspiritofrevengeagainst wrong inflicted.
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I think that sometimes these peace treaties must have been framed in aspiritofrevengeand fear.
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There are many other dangers, but the spirit of enmity—thespiritofrevenge—was definitely not there.
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If we were to-day exercising thespiritofrevengefor what has been imposed upon us we should be inclined to vote against it, but we are not.
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Is it to be for the better or is it to create or strengthen thespiritofrevenge, the revengeful feeling which at the moment is rife throughout the land?
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The other causes of wars are trade, outlet for population, ill-adjusted territories, or the spiritofrevenge, which, however regrettable it may he, is but human nature.
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Far from eradicating thespiritofrevenge, all they do is to accentuate it; they keep up that warlike atmosphere which we all profess to be so anxious to destroy.
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He was guided by aspiritofrevengeand tolerated whimsical mistreatment of the prisoners by the guards.
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