Nemesis

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  • noun. A source of harm or ruin.
  • noun. Retributive justice in its execution or outcome.
  • noun. An opponent that cannot be beaten or overcome.
  • noun. One that inflicts retribution or vengeance.
  • noun. The goddess of retributive justice or vengeance.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In Greek myth, a goddess personifying allotment, or the divine distribution to every man of his precise share of fortune, good and bad.
  • noun. Retributive justice.
  • noun. [NL.] In zoology, a genus of crustaceans.
  • noun. The 128th planetoid, discovered by Watson in 1872.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • proper noun. The goddess of retribution or vengeance; hence, retributive justice personified; divine vengeance.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An archenemy
  • noun. A person or character who specifically brings about the downfall of another person or character
  • noun. The principle of retributive justice.
  • noun. A punishment or defeat that is deserved and cannot be avoided.
  • noun. The polar opposite of a character.
  • noun. A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (Greek mythology) the goddess of divine retribution and vengeance
  • noun. something causing misery or death
  • Word Usage
    "So, how can scientology claim to be a religion if their nemesis is their god."