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  • noun Plural form of heartburning.

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Examples

  • You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heartburnings which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Our Own Randy Barnett Talks to Prof. Glenn Reynolds (InstaPundit) About Whether ObamaCare Is Constitutional 2010

  • You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heartburnings which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The “Racist” Charge 2010

  • You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heartburnings which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The “Racist” Charge 2010

  • You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heartburnings which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Our Own Randy Barnett Talks to Prof. Glenn Reynolds (InstaPundit) About Whether ObamaCare Is Constitutional 2010

  • First, it falls out fortunately as I think for the allaying of contradictions and heartburnings, that the honor and reverence due to the ancients remains untouched and undiminished, while I may carry out my designs and at the same time reap the fruit of my modesty.

    The New Organon 2005

  • Oh! the envyings and heartburnings of dozens and dozens; the wonder, the incredulity that will be felt at hearing what you have done!

    Mansfield Park 2004

  • The rude ungentle treatment which they experience creates such heartburnings as are no wise consonant with that cheerful ardour and spirit which ought ever to be the characteristic of an officer.

    John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

  • The rude ungentle treatment which they experience creates such heartburnings as are no wise consonant with that cheerful ardour and spirit which ought ever to be the characteristic of an officer.

    John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

  • They had witnessed the heartburnings of rival chiefs, and the dissensions among the patriots; and perceiving the state of barbarism to which continual oppression, and habits of lawless turbulence, had reduced the nation, did not recollect that the vices of the people were owing to their unhappy circumstances, but that the virtues which they displayed arose from their own nature.

    The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

  • To secure a continuance of that devotion the compromises of the Constitution must not only be preserved, but sectional jealousies and heartburnings must be discountenanced, and all should remember that they are members of the same political family, having a common destiny.

    James Knox Polk: Inaugural Address 1989

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