What's the difference between erinys and vengeance?

Erinys


Definition:

  • (n.) An avenging deity; one of the Furies; sometimes, conscience personified.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Detectives visited the pair’s hotel rooms, the Pine bar, the Erinys boardroom.
  • (2) Lugovoi and Kovtun first tried to poison Litvinenko on 16 October 2006, during a meeting at the private security company Erinys in Grosvenor Square, central London, he claimed.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Evidence from nuclear experts of polonium levels on a table at the Mayfair security firm Erinys.

Vengeance


Definition:

  • (n.) Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge.
  • (n.) Harm; mischief.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fall of a tyrant is usually the cause of popular rejoicing followed by public vengeance.
  • (2) But within a few months, the disease came back with a vengeance and killed.
  • (3) In one way they were right to state the obvious – because Celtic were utter plod at the back – but hubris is best not displayed until you are beyond the reach of vengeance, as opposed to being about to walk into the fortress of the foe you have just mocked.
  • (4) Where we already have the electoral numbers, our political vengeance has been merciless against the GOP; witness California after its electoral dalliance with anti-immigrant policies or Mitt Romney’s disastrous 2012 campaign .
  • (5) Vengeance and the wish to punish are understandable reactions to feeling duped and fooled.
  • (6) Somewhere in here is a story that Refn can hardly be bothered to tell: the psychotic brother of Bangkok-dwelling American Julian (Ryan Gosling) murders a girl, is murdered for it in his turn by the girl's father, who is acting reluctantly under the aegis of a karaoke-loving samurai-cop (Vithaya Pansringarm), an angel of vengeance figure who then subtracts arm number one from the father as punishment for pimping out his late daughter.
  • (7) It sounds like the premise for a Stephen King thriller, but this tale of fixation and vengeance is the latest chapter of the writer's real life.
  • (8) Game of Thrones Trailer #2 - Vengeance (HBO) Another world 4.
  • (9) And this short-lived fixation will move the conversation away from the administrations’s chaotic (or nonexistent) foreign policy, away from Trump’s impulsive vengeance undertaken on behalf of the very same “beautiful babies” he has prevented from entering our country.
  • (10) Yet the smog came back with a vengeance on Wednesday.
  • (11) The four horsemen of Trident – Vanguard, Victorious, Vigilant and Vengeance – take it in turn to provide a continuous patrol of the world's oceans, wielding a cargo of up to 16 Trident ballistic missiles.
  • (12) The author examines how these negative affects, the accompanying victim role, and oppositional defiance enable angry adolescents to defend against depression and loss, to demand nurturance from others, to protect their precarious inner autonomy, and to undo their humiliation and shame by vengeance and reversal.
  • (13) Such gruesome stories of expedience and vengeance have proliferated as fast as North Korea’s missile programmes during Kim’s five-year reign.
  • (14) It took five months but it seems that the "sad 4chaners" have now indeed reached Gawker, with a vengeance.
  • (15) In our own way, it is a form of vengeance: by gossiping, we have the feeling we're plotting.
  • (16) "They hate us, with a vengeance," said another Liverpool officer, adding that the rioters were not dissimilar to the officer's son, who had "fallen by the wayside" ... "He's grown up in a hard area, you know.
  • (17) As part of a growing threat to the Seven Kingdoms from beyond the Wall, what will her lust for vengeance mean?
  • (18) As Sarah Zielinski from Smithsonian magazine , Kristen Philipkoski on Gizmodo and Mel Robbins on cnn.com state ringingly, while freezing may kill some germs, it most certainly won't kill all, and the germs will return with a vengeance once you wear those jeans again and heat them up to body temperature.
  • (19) There still exists a view that Bashir's government is all that stands between stability and the barbarians at the gate, ready to storm the capital city and wreak vengeance for all the grievances inflicted by the Arab centre of power.
  • (20) Blockbuster machine Marvel were somewhat more successful when they went for a darker approach to Thor: The Dark World in 2013, with a tale filled with vengeance, surprise deaths and dimly-filtered Icelandic locations.

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