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Nemesis

Nemesis Meaning & Definition
Nemesis Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Nemesis?

[n] (Greek mythology) the goddess of divine retribution and vengeance
[n] something causes misery or death; "the bane of my life"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Nemesis: bane | curse | scourge

Related Terms | Find terms related to Nemesis: 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

See Also | affliction | Greek deity

Nemesis In Webster's Dictionary

\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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