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ran·cour

(răng′kər)

n. Chiefly British

Variant of rancor.

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rancour

(ˈræŋkə) or

rancor

malicious resentfulness or hostility; spite

[C14: from Old French, from Late Latin rancor rankness]

ˈrancorous adj

ˈrancorously adv

ˈrancorousness n

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Noun

rancour - a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

bitterness, rancor, resentment, gall

ill will, enmity, hostility - the feeling of a hostile person; "he could no longer contain his hostility"

heartburning - intense resentment; "his promotion caused much heartburning among his rivals"

huffishness, sulkiness - a feeling of sulky resentment

grievance, grudge, score - a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation; "holding a grudge"; "settling a score"

enviousness, envy - a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another

rancour

noun hatred, hate, spite, hostility, resentment, bitterness, grudge, malice, animosity, venom, antipathy, spleen, enmity, ill feeling, bad blood, ill will, animus, malevolence, malignity, chip on your shoulder (informal), resentfulness 'That's too bad,' he said without rancour.

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μνησικακία

rancœur rancune

maligno rancore

rancour

rancor (US) [ˈræŋkəʳ] N → rencor m

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rancour

[ˈræŋkə^r] (British) rancor (US) n → rancune f, rancœur f

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rancour

, (US) rancor

n (of tone) → Bitterkeit f, → Verbitterung f; (of attack) → Boshaftigkeit f

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rancour

rancor (Am) [ˈræŋkəʳ] n (frm) → rancore m

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"You know best what satisfaction you would have, beyond that of gratifying a ridiculous rancor worthy only of wandering savages."

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I hid my rancor as well as I could, and took what revenge lay in my power by insinuating that he might have a very different view if he read Heine in the original.

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Some of the very peasants who had been most active in wrangling with him over the hay, some whom he had treated with contumely, and who had tried to cheat him, those very peasants had greeted him goodhumoredly, and evidently had not, were incapable of having any feeling of rancor against him, any regret, any recollection even of having tried to deceive him.

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But the Parisians cherish little rancor; and then, having forced the beginning of the play by their authority, the good bourgeois had got the upper hand of the cardinal, and this triumph was sufficient for them.

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And the consciousness that the insult was not yet avenged, that his rancor was still unspent, weighed on his heart and poisoned the artificial tranquillity which he managed to obtain in Turkey by means of restless, plodding, and rather vainglorious and ambitious activity.