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rancour
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rancour has 1 sense
- rancour(n = noun.feeling) bitterness, gall, rancor, resentment - a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will; Array is a kind of enmity, hostility, ill will
has particulars: heartburning, huffishness, sulkiness, grievance, grudge, score, enviousness, envy
OXFORD DICTIONARY
rancour, n. (US rancor) inveterate bitterness, malignant hate, spitefulness.
Derivative
rancorous adj. rancorously adv.
Etymology
ME f. OF f. LL rancor -oris (as RANCID)
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