2 June 2013

vendetta

[ven-det-uh]

noun
1. a private feud in which the members of the family of a murdered person seek to avenge the murder by killing the slayer or one of the slayer’s relatives, especially such vengeance as once practiced in Corsica and parts of Italy.
2. any prolonged and bitter feud, rivalry, contention, or the like: a political vendetta.

Origin:
1850–55; < Italian < Latin vindicta vengeance; see vindictive

Related forms
ven·det·tist, noun

Today’s aphorism

Impossible isn’t something that can’t be done. It’s just something that hasn’t been done before.

– Unknown

On this day

2 June 1953 – Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey, England.

2 June 1965 – the first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives in Saigon to assist the American military in the Vietnam War.