• Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    That’s the first time I’ve every read “revengeful” and I looked it up. “Venge” is the verb from the Latin vindicare (“to avenge, vindicate”). You’d be vengeful, not revengeful. Someone might venge you and then you’d revenge them. Venges all the way down.

    Neat.