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Justice and Divine Vengeance Pursuing Crime by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, c. 1805 –1808. Revenge is defined as committing a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance, be it real [1] or perceived. [2]
Some psychologists, however, such as Bushman and Anderson, argue that the hostile/predatory dichotomy that is commonly employed in psychology fails to define rage fully, since it is possible for anger to motivate aggression, provoking vengeful behavior, without incorporating the impulsive thinking that is characteristic of rage.
Avunculicide – the act of killing an uncle (Latin: avunculus "(maternal) uncle").; Familicide – is a multiple-victim homicide where a killer's spouse and children are slain (Latin: familia "family").
The word is derived from the Latin word verbum (also the source of verbiage), plus the verb gerĕre, to carry on or conduct, from which the Latin verb verbigerāre, to talk or chat, is derived. However, clinically the term verbigeration never achieved popularity and as such has virtually disappeared from psychiatric terminology.
There are two words in ancient Greek that have been translated to "temperance" in English. The first, sôphrosune, largely meant "self-restraint".The other, enkrateia ', was a word coined during the time of Aristotle, to mean "control over oneself", or "self-discipline".
Anger, also known as wrath (UK: / r ɒ θ / ROTH) or rage, is an intense emotional state involving a strong, uncomfortable and non-cooperative response to a perceived provocation, hurt, or threat.
The dictionary was first considered in 2006 when Koenig was studying at Macalester College, Minnesota and attempting to write poetry.The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows was the idea he came up with that would contain all the words he needed for his poetry, including emotions that had never been linguistically described. [11]
In the English-speaking world, the Italian word vendetta is used to mean a blood feud; in Italian, however, it simply means (personal) 'vengeance' or 'revenge', originating from the Latin vindicta , while the word faida would be more appropriate for a blood feud. In the English-speaking world, "vendetta" is sometimes extended to mean any other ...