Revenge vs. Justice

Revengenoun

Any form of personal retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some perceived harm or injustice.

Revengenoun

(competition) A win by the previous loser.

Revengeverb

(reflexive) To take one's revenge (on or upon) someone.

Revengeverb

(transitive) To take revenge for (a particular harmful action), to avenge.

Revengeverb

To take vengeance; to revenge itself.

Revengeverb

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.

Revengeverb

To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.

Revengeverb

To take vengeance; - with

Revengenoun

The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.

Revengenoun

The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury.

Revengenoun

action taken in return for an injury or offense

Revengeverb

take revenge for a perceived wrong;

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 that "does...

Justicenoun

The state or characteristic of being just or fair.

Justicenoun

The ideal of fairness, impartiality, etc., especially with regard to the punishment of wrongdoing.

Justicenoun

Judgment and punishment of a party who has allegedly wronged another.

Justicenoun

The civil power dealing with law.

Justicenoun

A title given to judges of certain courts; capitalized as a title.

Justicenoun

The quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness.

Justicenoun

Conformity to truth and reality in expressing opinions and in conduct; fair representation of facts respecting merit or demerit; honesty; fidelity; impartiality; as, the justice of a description or of a judgment; historical justice.

Justicenoun

Agreeableness to right; equity; justness; as, the justice of a claim.

Justicenoun

A person duly commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice.

Justiceverb

To administer justice to.

Justicenoun

the quality of being just or fair

Justicenoun

the administration of law; the act of determining rights and assigning rewards or punishments;

Justicenoun

a public official authorized to decide questions bought before a court of justice

Justicenoun

the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870

Justice

Justice, in its broadest sense, is the principle that people receive that which they deserve, with the interpretation of what then constitutes being impacted upon by numerous fields, with many differing viewpoints and perspectives, including the concepts of moral correctness based on ethics, rationality, law, religion, equity and fairness. Consequently, the application of justice differs in every culture.