bitterness

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  1. The state or quality of being bitter, in any of the senses of that word. She was in bitterness of soul. 1 Sam. i. 10. Shall we be thus afflicted in his wreaks, His fits, his frenzy, and his bitterness? Shak., Tit. And., iv. 4. The bitterness and animosity between the commanders was such that a great part of the army was marched. Clarendon. The bitterness of anger. Longfellow.
  2. In the gall of bitterness in a state of extreme impiety or enmity to God. Acts viii. 23.
  3. Root of bitterness a dangerous error or schism tending to draw persons to apostasy. Heb. xii. 15. Synonyms Acrimony, Asperity, Harshness, etc. (see acrimony), spite, ill will, malignity, heartburning; grief, distress, heaviness.

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  • Joshie had thought for a long while his father had meant that Joshie was too ugly for anyone to make love with him, and the bitterness was almost palpable, but after a time he realized that his father had been talking about sterility. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 01 - January 2000
  • There has been great bitterness—great bitterness, which is natural; and some recoil against myself, more, perhaps, than is quite rational. —  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II
  • Then I would have said that the bitterness could be allayed and the situation fixed; now I know that nothing could have truly changed the situation. —  F ;SF - vol 104 issue 06 - June 2003
  • In the present, his bitterness is aggravated, for he remains an egg box maker while the Neeson character struts his stuff on the world stage. —  Slugger O'Toole
  • I'm sure that's what a lot of the bitterness is about. —  Terminal Degree
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  1. from Middle English bitternesse, biternesse, from Anglo-Saxon biternys, from biter + -nys: see bitter, a., and -ness.
 

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