All 11 Uses
rancor
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude
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- That conversation, the biting rancor that he felt against his father, and the imminent possibility of wild love inspired a serene courage in him.†
Chpt 2rancor = deep and bitter anger or hatred
- Anxious for solitude, bitten by a virulent rancor against the world, one night he left his bed as usual, but he did not go to Pilar Ternera's house, but to mingle is the tumult of the fair.†
Chpt 2
- Amaranta, on the other hand, never did overcome her rancor against Rebeca, even though life offered her a satisfaction of which she had not dreamed: at the initiative of Ursula, who did not know how to repair the shame, Pietro Crespi continued having lunch at the house on Tuesdays, rising above his defeat with a serene dignity.†
Chpt 5
- She felt reborn in her heart the rancor that she had felt in other days for Rebeca, and begging God not to impel her into the extreme state of wishing her dead, she banished her from the sewing room.†
Chpt 9
- When she heard it, Amaranta thought of Pietro Crespi, his evening gardenia, and his smell of lavender, and in the depths of her withered heart a clean rancor flourished, purified by time.†
Chpt 9
- Every time they passed the rundown house she would tell her about an unpleasant incident, a tale of hate, trying in that way to make her extended rancor be shared by her niece and consequently prolonged beyond death, but her plan did not work because Remedios was immune to any kind of passionate feelings and much less to those of others.†
Chpt 11
- The hatred that she noticed one night in Memes words did not upset her because it was directed at her, but she felt the repetition of another adolescence that seemed as clean as hers must have seemed and that, however, was already tainted with rancor.†
Chpt 14
- she seemed completely exhausted by her rancor.
Chpt 16 *
- Nevertheless, the rancor disappeared much sooner than she herself had expected, and then she continued sending the food out of pride and finally out of compassion.†
Chpt 18
- He wrote so many during the first months that at that time they felt closer to him than when he had been in Macondo, and they were almost freed from the rancor that he had left behind.†
Chpt 20
- The rancor was aggravated six months later when Gaston wrote again from Leopoldville, where he had finally recovered the airplane, simply to ask them to ship him the velocipede, which of all that he had left behind in Macondo was the only thing that had any sentimental value for him.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(rancor) deep and bitter anger or hatred -- especially when long-standing
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)