All 5 Uses
rancor
in
The Iliad
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- This dispute should not leave rancor afterward between us.†
Book 4 *rancor = deep and bitter anger or hatred
- While he appealed to them, Queen Hera tossed with rancor and indignation in her chair, making mighty Olympos quake, and said into Poseidon's ear: "Oh, what a pity!†
Book 8
- Athena held her peace toward Zeus, though a fierce rancor pervaded her; Hera could not contain it, and burst out to him: "Fearsome as you are, why take that tone with goddesses, my lord?†
Book 8
- Rancor within him deepened against Zeus.†
Book 13
- let strife and rancor perish from the lives of gods and men, with anger that envenoms even the wise and is sweeter than slow-dripping honey, clouding the hearts of men like smoke: just so the marshal of the army, Agamemnon, moved me to anger.†
Book 18
Definitions:
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(1)
(rancor) deep and bitter anger or hatred -- especially when long-standing
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)