nemesis

Part of speech: noun

Myth. The goddess of vengeance.

Part of speech: noun

Retribution.

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Usage examples "nemesis":

  1. Like a Nemesis it followed them relentlessly. - "The Grey Cloak", Harold MacGrath.
  2. However some Nemesis overtook him, as it does a too successful athlete just at the termination of his course. - "Plutarch's Lives, Volume II", Aubrey Stewart & George Long.
  3. It was on a Sunday morning that Nemesis attended to Jim's case. - "Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters", Henry Wallace Phillips.