Meaning of NEMESIS
| Pronunciation: | | 'nemisis, 'nemisis
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- [n] (Greek mythology) the goddess of divine retribution and vengeance
- [n] something causes misery or death; "the bane of my life"
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| | Synonyms: | | bane, curse, scourge |
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| | See Also: | | affliction, Greek deity | |
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| | Definition: | | Nemesis
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| | Definition: | | \Nem"e*sis\, n. [L., fr. gr. ?, orig., distribution, fr.
? to distribute. See {Nomad}.] (Class. Myth.)
The goddess of retribution or vengeance; hence, retributive
justice personified; divine vengeance.
This is that ancient doctrine of nemesis who keeps
watch in the universe, and lets no offense go
unchastised. --Emerson.
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| | Related Terms: | | affliction, Alecto, Astraea, avenger, bane, blindfolded Justice, bugbear, burden, burning rage, calamity, castigation, chastening, chastisement, condign punishment, correction, crushing burden, curse, death, defensibility, deserts, destruction, Dike, disciplinary measures, discipline, disease, drumhead justice, dueness, equitableness, equity, evenhandedness, evil, ferule, furious rage, furor, fury, give-and-take, grievance, harm, infliction, judgment, judicial punishment, Jupiter Fidius, justice, justifiability, justifiableness, justification, Justitia, justness, lawfulness, legality, Loki, measure for measure, meetness, Megaera, Minos, open wound, pains, pains and punishments, passion, pay, payment, penal retribution, penalty, penology, pest, pestilence, plague, poetic justice, properness, propriety, punishment, punition, rage, retribution, retributive justice, revanchist, Rhadamanthus, right, rightfulness, rightness, rude justice, running sore, scales of justice, scourge, Set, summary justice, tearing passion, the Erinyes, the Eumenides, the Furies, Themis, thorn, Tisiphone, torment, towering rage, Typhon, vehemence, vexation, vindicator, violence, visitation, warrantability, warrantedness, well-deserved punishment, what is right, what-for, woe |
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