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 Translation for 'act of vengeance' from English to French
acte {m} de vengeanceact of vengeance
Partial Matches
relig.
acte {m} de contrition
act of contrition
mil.pol.
agression {f} [par un pays]
act of aggression
supercherie {f}act of deception
défi {m}act of defiance
acte {m} de tromperieact of deception
dr.
acte {m} de substitution
act of entail
acte {m} de foiact of faith
traîtrise {f}act of treachery
traîtrise {f}(act of) betrayal
acte {m} arbitraireact of caprice
acte {m} de vengeanceact of revenge
férocité {f} [acte]act of cruelty
acte {m} héroïqueact of heroism
relig.
acte {m} rédempteur
act of salvation
relig.
acte {m} rédempteur
act of redemption
scélératesse {f} [acte]act of villainy
violence {f} [acte]act of violence
dr.
force {f} majeure
act of God
PoSauv.
incendie {m} volontaire
(act of) incendiarism
indécence {f} [acte]act of indecency
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Usage Examples English
  • and the Dixie Dancekings" (1975) and "Act of Vengeance" (1986).
  • Psimon used his mental abilities to subdue Mammoth and turn Shimmer into glass, which he then proceeded to shatter in an act of vengeance.
  • However, some refs have been known to call it anyway as an act of vengeance against players they do not like, even verbally taunting the players as they do so.
  • With the ruins of Japan as a background, Lelouch vows to his Japanese friend Suzaku Kururugi that he will one day obliterate Britannia as an act of vengeance against his father.
  • Her first film roles were in the 1974 movies "Devil Times Five" and "Act of Vengeance" and the 1976 horror film "Grizzly".

  • it was an act of vengeance when Megara revolted during the early parts of the Pentecontaetia.
  • In 1856, what appears to be an act of vengeance, prompted by a Black woman killing, in self-defense, a white man who sexually assaulted her, led to the lynching of two Black men and the hanging of another.
  • Despite the fact that the execution was fully lawful, it was seen by many of the szlachta, most notably by the Protestants, as an act of vengeance or abuse of monarch power, a warning to the dangers of absolutism (especially pronounced given the power of Poland's nobility, amounting to a quasi-democracy).
  • This could mean that Echmarcach's expulsion of Sitriuc was a direct act of vengeance for the latter's slaying of Ragnall ua Ímair (then King of Waterford) the year before.
  • Spawn and Cog then travel to the deserts of Tunisia for permission from the Greenworld to transform Earth into Spawn's ideal world until he is attacked by the third Redeemer as an act of vengeance.

  • This appears to have been an act of vengeance for the wrongs inflicted upon the orphan children of Giroie by Gilbert, and it is not clear what Ralph de Gacé had to do in the business.
  • The murders were also portrayed in a 1986 HBO television movie, "Act of Vengeance."
  • The 1986 HBO television movie, "Act of Vengeance," was about the union struggle and the murders.
  • There, Belial defeats the fallen angel and rips his wings off as an act of vengeance.
  • Various people involved in the case, particularly Brandon's family, have alleged that Tisdel was somehow involved with the murders, or had at least set them up in an act of vengeance.

  • In response to the vote for immediate and total independence, the vindictive French settlers and colonialists in Guinea were quite dramatic in severing ties with Guinea, with many French civil servants destroying Guinean infrastructure as they departed Guinea as an act of vengeance for Guineans voting to become independent.
  • Between December 1941 and January 1942 over two thousand Bosnian Muslims were killed in Foča by the Chetniks as act of vengeance for repression over Serbs by Muslims in ranks of Ustaše.
  • The operation also led to the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on 31 October 1984 by two of her Sikh bodyguards as an act of vengeance, triggering the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
  • The Soviet partisans intended to harm the local defence groups from these villages as an act of vengeance for their activities; these repressions were perpetrated to suppress local defence as a mass phenomenon.
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