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rancour

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1. rancour - Noun

2. Rancour - Proper noun

Meaning

a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

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Cheerfulness and good nature, purge hatred and rancour. Musa al-Kadhim

There is a trick with which votaries of Feminism seek to prejudice the public mind against its critics, and that is the "fake” that any man who ventures to criticise the pretensions of Feminism, is actuated by motives of personal rancour against the female sex. Ernest Belfort Bax

It is obvious, that the people of England are at this moment animated against each other, with a spirit of hatred and rancour. It behoves you, in the first place, to find a remedy for these distempers which at present are predominant in the civil constitution. Robert Walpole

We shall seek debate without division or rancour. Johann Lamont

[ William Tyndale is a man] replete with venomous envy, rancour and malice. Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex

Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you. Donald Sutherland

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