Reckoning vs. Revenge
Difference Between Reckoning and Revenge
Reckoning➦
The act of counting or computing.
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Revenge➦
Revenge is defined as the act of committing a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance, be it real or perceived. Francis Bacon described revenge as a kind of "wild justice" that "does...
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Reckoning➦
An itemized bill or statement of a sum due.
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Revenge➦
To inflict punishment in return for (injury or insult).
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Reckoning➦
A settlement of accounts
a day of reckoning.
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Revenge➦
(Archaic) To seek or take vengeance for (oneself or another person); avenge.
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Reckoning➦
The act or process of calculating the position of a ship or an aircraft.
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Revenge➦
The act of taking vengeance for injuries or wrongs; retaliation
took revenge on her tormentors.
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Reckoning➦
The position so calculated.
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Revenge➦
A desire for revenge; spite or vindictiveness
He did it out of revenge.
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Reckoning➦
The action of calculating or estimating something.
By that reckoning, it would take six weeks to go five miles.
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Revenge➦
An opportunity to retaliate, as by a return sports match after a defeat
After the loss, he demanded that he be given his revenge.
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Reckoning➦
An opinion or judgement.
day of reckoning
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Revenge➦
Something done in retaliation, especially a defeat of a rival who has been victorious.
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Reckoning➦
A summing up or appraisal.
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Revenge➦
Any form of personal, retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some alleged or perceived harm or injustice.
Indifference is the sweetest revenge.
When I left my wife, she tried to set fire to the house in revenge.
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Reckoning➦
The settlement of accounts, as between parties.
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Revenge➦
A win by a previous loser.
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Reckoning➦
The working out of consequences or retribution for one's actions.
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Revenge➦
(transitive) To take revenge for (a particular harmful action) or on behalf of (its victim); to avenge.
Arsenal revenged their loss to Manchester United last time with a 5–0 drubbing this time.
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Reckoning➦
(archaic) The bill (UK) or check (US), especially at an inn or tavern.
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Revenge➦
To take one's revenge (on or upon someone).
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Reckoning➦
(archaic) Rank or status.
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Revenge➦
To take vengeance; to revenge itself.
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Reckoning➦
The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation.
Even reckoning makes lasting friends, and the way to make reckonings even is to make them often.
He quitted London, never to return till the day of a terrible and memorable reckoning had arrived.
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Revenge➦
To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; - followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer.
To revenge the death of our fathers.
The gods are just, and will revenge our cause.
Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come,Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius.
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Reckoning➦
The charge or account made by a host at an inn.
A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning.
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Revenge➦
To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.
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Reckoning➦
Esteem; account; estimation.
You make no further reckoning of it [beauty] than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed.
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Revenge➦
To take vengeance; - with
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Reckoning➦
The calculation of a ship's position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, - in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under Dead); - also used for dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation.
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Revenge➦
The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.
Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is even with his enemy; but in passing it over he is superior.
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Reckoning➦
problem solving that involves numbers or quantities
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Revenge➦
The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury.
Revenge now goesTo lay a complot to betray thy foes.
The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.
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Reckoning➦
a bill for an amount due
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Revenge➦
action taken in return for an injury or offense
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Reckoning➦
the act of counting;
the counting continued for several hours
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Revenge➦
take revenge for a perceived wrong;
He wants to avenge the murder of his brother
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