Vengeance: alternatives and connections

A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforce…

An accusation; a process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding pun…

Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be received in satisfa…

The act of chastising; pain inflicted for punishment and correction; discipline; punishment.

A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.

Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offe…

Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.

An offense or transgression against law; (Scots Law) an offense of a lesser degree; a misdemeanor.

Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.

An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.

An offense which occasions a total forfeiture either lands or goods, or both, at the common law, and to which capital or other punishm…

Unrestrained; loose; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.

Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.

A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct…

To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; -- usually in a bad sense, to gaze with malignant satisfaction, passionate desire, lust, or av…

That which is inflicted or imposed, as punishment, disgrace, calamity, etc.

the act of pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death)

Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime;…