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Rancor   /rˈæŋkər/   Listen
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Rancor  n.  (Written also rancour)  The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred. "To stint rancour and dissencioun." "It would not be easy to conceive the passion, rancor, and malice of their tongues and hearts."
Synonyms: Enmity; hatred; ill will; malice; spite; grudge; animosity; malignity. Rancor, Enmity. Enmity and rancor both describe hostile feelings; but enmity may be generous and open, while rancor implies personal malice of the worst and most enduring nature, and is the strongest word in our language to express hostile feelings. "Rancor will out; proud prelate, in thy face I see thy fury." "Rancor is that degree of malice which preys upon the possessor."






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"Rancor" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the Countess the ex-horseman dropped his brush and thrust his hands aloft, exclaiming, "Don't shoot, ma'am!" His grin was friendly; there was no rancor in his voice. "How you gettin' along down ...
— The Winds of Chance • Rex Beach

... making no headway," thought the clerk. "May's prospects are encouraging." Owing to the magistrate's harsh reception the idea delighted him; and, indeed, letting his rancor have the upper hand, Goguet actually offered up a prayer that the prisoner might get the better of ...
— Monsieur Lecoq • Emile Gaboriau

... temples dim. Still speed thy truth!—still wave thy spirit sword, Till every land acknowledge Thee the Lord, And the broad banner of the Cross, unfurled In triumph, wave above a subject world. And here O God! where feuds thy church divide— The sectary's rancor, and the bigot's pride— Melt every heart, till all our breasts enshrine One faith, one hope, one love, one zeal divine, And, with one voice, adoring nations call Upon the Father and the ...
— The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland • Various

... Nisida! Like to an avenging deity was she—no longer woman in the glory of her charms and the elegance of her disguise, but a fury—a very fiend, an implacable demoness, armed with the blasting lightnings of infernal malignity and hellish rancor! ...
— Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf • George W. M. Reynolds

... Legislature assembled, it was found to comprise four groups: the out-and-out Democrats who would stand by Douglas through thick and thin, and vote only for his nominee; the bolting Democrats who would not vote for a Douglas man, but whose party rancor was so great that they would throw their votes away rather than give them to a Whig; such enemies of Douglas as were willing to vote for ...
— Lincoln • Nathaniel Wright Stephenson


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