with a vengeance

== English == === Pronunciation === === Prepositional phrase === with a vengeance (idiomatic) With an intense motivation; in an extreme, intense, or violent manner. 1651, Samuel Clarke, A General Martyrologie, Underhill (London), ch. 27 "The Original Progress and Practice of the Spanish Inquisition," p. 209: With which intolerable pains if the party shriek or cry out, they roar out as loud to him to confess the truth, or else he shall come down with a vengeance. ==== Synonyms ==== (modifying a noun postpositively): intense (as an adverb): intensely, with a will, violently ==== Translations ==== === References === “with a vengeance”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present. “with a vengeance” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.