A bitter, destructive feud, normally between two families, clans or factions, in which each injury or slaying is revenged; a blood feud
If one person has a vendetta against another, the first person wants revenge for something the second person did to them in the past. The vice president said the cartoonist has a personal vendetta against him
The blood-feud, or duty of the nearest kin of a murdered man to kill the murderer It prevails in Corsica, and exists in Sicily, Sardinia, and Calabria It is preserved among the Druses, Circassians, Arabs, etc (Latin, vindicta )
Family feuds between the rural nobility (contadini) that were often managed between the wide separating distances of the contado