Definition of rancours Rancours
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What does rancours mean?
Wiktionary 
- rancours (Noun)
Plural of rancour.
Part of speech
🔤- rancours, noun, plural of rancour.
WordNet
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| rancour - a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | ||
| resentment, bitterness, gall, rancor | ||
| enmity, ill will, hostility a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition; "he could not conceal his hostility" | ||
| heartburning intense resentment; "his promotion caused much heartburning among his rivals" | ||
| huffishness, sulkiness a sullen moody resentful disposition | ||
| grudge, grievance, score a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation; "holding a grudge"; "settling a score" | ||
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Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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rancour
rang′kur, n. deep-seated enmity: spite: virulence: (Shak.) sourness.—adjs. (obs.) Ranck=Rank; Ran′corous, malicious: virulent.—adv. Ran′corously. [Fr.,—L. rancor, an old grudge—rancere, to be rancid.]
Part of speech
🔤- rancour, noun, singular of rancours.
