ETYMOLOGY
from Latin vindicta (vengeance), after malevolence
EXAMPLE
“…Ill-will is perhaps always a form or mode of vindictivolence, i.e. is connected with a feeling of ourselves as somehow wronged…”
From: A Treatise on the Moral Ideals
By John Grote,
Edited by Joseph Bickersteth Mayor, 1876
Appendix on Malevolence
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