blood revenge
Familial murder reprisal
Blood revenge is retaliation for a killing by murdering the killer or a member of the killer's family.
The practice treats bloodshed as a debt that can only be settled with more blood, often perpetuating cycles of violence across generations: The families had been locked in blood revenge for decades.
Also called blood feud or vendetta.
- vendettaProlonged retaliatory conflict
- feudBitter ongoing rivalry
- retaliationPunitive response to injury
- settling scoresAvenging past grievances
- honor killingMurder for family disgrace
family honor · grudge · retribution · sworn enemy · mortal enemy · clan · kin · kinship ties · oath · duel · ancestral · hatred · sworn · eye for an eye · enemy · tribe · slain · justice
- revengeretaliation, payback, vendetta, score settling, settling accounts
- Revenge TragedyHamlet, retribution, Electra, Medea, wronged hero
- Volsung sagaSigurd, Gunnar, Sigmund, cursed ring, gold hoard
- historical crimestreason, heresy, blasphemy, witchcraft, piracy
- vigilantismvigilante, vigilantism, lynch mob, lynching, mob justice
blood revengedue process
Guaranteed judicial fairness
rule of law · civil litigation · legal remedy · restorative justice · criminal justice
blood revengeforgiveness
Releasing resentment toward offenders
reconciliation · pardon · peace · amnesty · absolution
blood revengemercy
Compassion toward offenders
clemency · grace · compassion · forbearance · magnanimity
blood, revenge, bloods, blooded, bloody, bloodied, bloodier, bloodiest, bloodily