At the same time the purpose of punishment is to propagate virtue by warnings rather than to exact vengeance for crimes committed.
The bookshelves in her office groan with work on historical institutions - the state is back in with a vengeance.
They believed that tragedy was in their hands and that anyone who transgressed their laws would suffer vengeance as a result.
He vows that only a "sweeping and consummate vengeance for the indignity alone should satisfy him".
Here were "the laws" returning to the literary realm with a vengeance.
Readers were therefore liable to imagine vengeance as a private matter rather than a blow against political tyranny.
He seems to relish his day of vengeance before it has happened.
Unfortunately, they pursue another traditional dualism with a vengeance, that of animal and environment.
