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rancour
/ ˈræŋkə /
noun
- malicious resentfulness or hostility; spite
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Derived Forms
- ˈrancorousness, noun
- ˈrancorous, adjective
- ˈrancorously, adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rancour1
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Example Sentences
She ought to find me supremely foolish, and her silence was not even that of rancour; it was contempt.
The tiger, on the contrary, though glutted with carnage, has still an insatiate thirst for blood; his rancour has no intervals.
She was in that state that she could not have endured sharpness or rancour.
If there have been conflicts, they have left no rancour, no bitterness.
Bitterness invaded him; rancour, anger, scorn, and desires accumulated in his mind—as with lovers.
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