All 10 Uses
rancor
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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- Resentments stirred up other resentments, reopened old scars, turned them into fresh wounds, and both were dismayed at the desolating proof that in so many years of conjugal battling they had done little more than nurture their rancor.†
Chpt 1rancor = deep and bitter anger or hatred
- But after the second anisette, the Doctor thought he heard Fermina Daza's voice at the other end of the patio, and his imagination went after her, followed her through the night that had just descended in the house as she lit the lights in the corridor, fumigated the bedrooms with the insecticide bomb, uncovered the pot of soup on the stove, which she was going to share that night with her father, the two of them alone at the table, she not raising her eyes, not tasting the soup, not breaking the rancorous spell, until he was forced to give in and ask her to forgive his severity that afternoon.†
Chpt 3rancorous = showing deep and bitter anger or hatred
- Besides, his brother's widow had died the year before, still smarting from rancor but without any heirs.†
Chpt 4rancor = deep and bitter 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.
Chpt 4 *
- The only possible explanation for her decline was the rancor she felt because her husband had knowingly sacrificed himself for a black rabble, as she used to say, when the only fitting sacrifice would have been to survive for her sake.†
Chpt 4
- They had never exchanged another word since their disagreeable breakfast of anise in the previous century, and Florentino Ariza was certain that even after he had obtained for his daughter the successful marriage that had become his only reason for living, Lorenzo Daza remembered him with as much rancor as he felt toward Lorenzo Daza.†
Chpt 5
- She could not avoid a profound feeling of rancor toward her husband for having left her alone in the middle of the ocean.†
Chpt 6
- On the night of the vigil for her husband, it not only seemed reasonable for him to be there, but she even understood it as the natural end of rancor: an act of forgiving and forgetting.†
Chpt 6
- He found a glimmer of hope in the ruins of disaster, for it seemed to him that Fermina Daza's misfortune glorified her, that her anger beautified her, and that her rancor with the world had given her back the untamed character she had displayed at the age of twenty.†
Chpt 6
- But after her quarrel with her daughter, embittered by the insults to her father, by her rancor toward her dead husband, by her anger at the hypocritical duplicities of Lucrecia del Real, whom she had considered her best friend for so many years, she felt herself superfluous in her own house.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(rancor) deep and bitter anger or hatred -- especially when long-standing
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)