Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Vindictiveness.
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- noun The
quality of beingvindicative .
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Examples
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As for Becky Sharp, with her treachery, her cruelty, her vindicativeness, perhaps we could better have understood and forgiven her had we known her lonely and neglected childhood, with the drunken artist father and her mother, the French opera girl.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926
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As for Becky Sharp, with her treachery, her cruelty, her vindicativeness {sic}, perhaps we could better have understood and forgiven her had we known her lonely and neglected childhood, with the drunken artist father and her mother, the French opera girl.
Fanny Herself 1917
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