rancour

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No rancour is so bitter as political rancour -- save, perhaps, religious rancour, which we shall also trace; no warfare more unscrupulous or more prone to use the insidious weapons of slander than political warfare.

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  • And there the Lady Alice Lisle--so called by courtesy, since Cromwell's titles did not at law survive the Restoration--might have ended her days in peace, but that it was written that those who hated her--innocent and aged though she was--for the name she bore, who included her in the rancour which had procured her husband's assassination, were to be fully satisfied. —  The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series
  • You, Leontion, would make others better; and better they certainly will be, when their hostilities languish in an empty field, and their rancour is tired with treading upon dust. —  Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
  • Their rancour was at least equal to their erudition,--the two most learned antagonists of a learned age Salmasius was a man of vast erudition, but no taste. —  Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
  • If it was the Day of Judgment you would go on moving resolutions; and you have the insolence to maunder over your gallant band of heroes, sacrificed to a whim of party rancour or a struggle for place. —  'That Very Mab'
  • If Clara had envied his stove, she would have envied it with scoffing rancour, and he would have used sarcasm in response Oh no!" —  Clayhanger
 

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/ˈrængkər/
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