Both Uses of
rancor
in
Anna Karenina
- Some of the very peasants who had been most active in wrangling with him over the hay, some whom he had treated with contumely, and who had tried to cheat him, those very peasants had greeted him goodhumoredly, and evidently had not, were incapable of having any feeling of rancor against him, any regret, any recollection even of having tried to deceive him.†
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- He even referred to Sergey Ivanovitch without rancor.†
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Definition:
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(rancor) deep and bitter anger or hatred -- especially when long-standing