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Definition

deep and bitter anger or hatred — especially when long-standing

rancor = feelings of deep and bitter anger or hatred

rancor = feelings of deep and bitter anger or hatred

They work to ensure that the love they feel for their mothers overcomes the rancor they also feel inside.
Sonia Nazario -- Enrique's Journey

rancor = feelings of deep and bitter anger

Jody peered cautiously at her to see whether any rancor toward him remained.
John Steinbeck -- The Red Pony

rancor = feelings of anger or hatred

she seemed completely exhausted by her rancor.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude

rancor = deep and bitter anger or hatred

His movements were precise and without rancor.
Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses

rancor = anger or hatred

they became entangled in a mean-spirited argument that stirred up in both of them the rancor of almost five years of divided love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera

rancor = deep and bitter anger or hatred

the vital stuffs of their mortal greed, rancor, and poisonous guilt,
Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes

rancor = deep and bitter anger or hatred

she dispensed with rancor, was indiscriminately polite, saving her real affection for the unpicked children of Cincinnati,
Toni Morrison -- Beloved

rancor = deep and bitter anger or hatred

Her voice was cold, but the rancor was gone from it.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

rancor = anger or hatred

Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke
William Shakespeare -- The Comedy of Errors

rancorous = showing deep and bitter anger or hatred

Every waking moment was poisoned by Grandma's hatred, but my mother ... kept her silent course around the house with only a murmured word or two when a reply seemed necessary and could be given without risking further rancor.
Katherine Paterson -- Jacob Have I Loved

rancor = feelings of bitter anger or hatred

There was no rancor in her voice.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
In the past I have bee proved his rancorous enemy.
Sophocles -- Oedipus the King
May God requite me if I came here frying to meddle, to stir up rancor.
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
Anson's queries were bitter and rancorous.
Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
It might be the last time that he would see her alone, and today he could leave her without rancor, without bitterness.
Willa Cather -- O Pioneers!
You know best what satisfaction you would have, beyond that of gratifying a ridiculous rancor worthy only of wandering savages.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
But now his sense of outrage was deep, rancorous, and ever present; he felt that he was a good fellow wronged.
Henry James -- The American
This was very grand; but still Mrs. Penniman, who felt that she had exposed herself, was faintly rancorous.
Henry James -- Washington Square

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