rancorousadj.

Brit.

/ˈraŋk(ə)rəs/, U.S.

/ˈræŋk(ə)rəs/

Forms: see rancour n. and -ous suffix; also 1500s ranckrous, 1500s–1600s rankrous, 1500s–1700s rancrous, 1600s ranck'rous, 1600s rank'rous.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rancour n., -ous suffix.

Etymology: < rancour n. + -ous suffix. Compare Middle French rancureux irritated, annoyed (14th cent. in an apparently isolated attestation; earlier as rancorus, rancurus (late 12th cent. in Old French)), Occitan rancurós complaining (late 12th cent. in Old Occitan as rancuros), Catalan rancorós (11th cent. as †rancurós), Spanish rencoroso (early 12th cent. as noun in sense ‘plaintiff’ in legal contexts, early 13th cent. as adjective, both in form †rencuroso; also as †rancuroso), Portuguese rancoroso (end of the 11th cent. as †rancuroso).

1. Of a person, or a person's mind, heart, disposition, etc.: that feels or exhibits rancour. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > bitterness > [adjective] > of person

rancorous?1517

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > bitterness > [adjective] > displaying rancour

rancorous?1517

?1517 King Henry VIII Let. in Camden Misc. (1992) XXXI. i. 32 Theire sensuall appetites and rancorous disposition against aliens and strangers.

1566 J. Partridge Worthie Hystorie Plasidas p. iii That your wisedome may bee the defence thereof agaynst the rancorous Zoilictes.

a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. D3^v Can you..display your rancorous minds?

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 50 Because I cannot flatter..I must be held a rankerous enimy.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 108 Even hatred it self, to a rancorous stomack, hath a kinde of wicked pleasure in it.

1681 J. Crowne Henry VI i. 38 'Tis ill policy To trust him with your Royal Person and Councels, Whose rancorous mind is now prepar'd for mischief.

1797 E. Burke Third Let. Peace Regicide Directory France 61 Throwing themselves and their Sovereign at the feet of a wicked and rancorous foe.

1823 S. W. Morton My Mind & its Thoughts 61 To the rancorous heart is given The hope of blessedness and heaven.

1877 M. Arnold Falkland in Nineteenth Century Mar. 154 In that age of harsh and rancorous tempers.

1921 E. L. White Andivius Hedulio iii. xxiv. 363 I have already in mind the very place for you, where none of your rancorous late associates can ever find you.

1956 W. B. Wells tr. G. Marañón Tiberius ii. i. 66 Between the two men there existed only a rancorous tension which gradually turned into hatred.

1990 A. Brookner Brief Lives viii. 85 He had left me alone—for ever, this time—and I resented it. I was dull, rancorous.

2004 Frederick (Maryland) News-Post 12 Apr. a10 Children..may be used as pawns by rancorous parents to punish each other.

2. Of a feeling or emotion: characterized by, or of the nature of, rancour.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > bitterness > [adjective]

bitter971

festereda1398

sourc1450

rancorous1566

infestered1570

amarulent1583

stomachous1590

enfested1591

fellifluous1656

vitriolic1841

1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Medea v. f. 44 Now rancorus grefe with firy fits begins to boyle agayne.

1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. B3 Boyling with rancorous hate against the remnaunt Troianes.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xi. sig. K8^v So flam'd his eyne with rage and rancorous yre.

1627 P. Fletcher Locustæ ii. xiii Her gracious love weighs downe our ranck'rous spight.

1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xiii. 121 Thus wicked and resolved sinners..entertaine rancorous affections.

1694 T. Southerne Fatal Marriage 65 The rancorous Malignity Of all ill Stars combin'd.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xi. vii. 145 It was Envy, the worst and most rancorous Kind of Envy, the Envy of Superiority of Understanding.

1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. l. 195 Malice..feasting with a rancorous rapture, upon the sordid catalogue of his distresses.

1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. App. 651 This excited rancorous envy in the breast of his uncle.

1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xix. 290 ‘Bully you?’ cried her father, in bitter, rancorous anger.

1946 Phoenix 1 15 This eye-witness..is inspired by the most rancorous hatred of the deceased.

1989 P. D. James Devices & Desires xiii. 87 You can't teach in an atmosphere of rancorous suspicion.

2001 T. M. Krier Birth Passages viii. 205 Blandamour hates Scudamour with a rancorous envy.

3. Of an action, event, etc.: proceeding from, or characterized by, rancour.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > bitterness > [adjective]

bitterc1175

stomaching1579

amarulent1583

stomachous1590

gall-ful1596

gall-wet1597

virulent1607

stomachful1610

rancorousa1616

gallsome1633

bitter-hearted1775

vitriolic1841

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. i. 6 The enmity and discord which of late Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your Duke.

1668 H. More Two Last Dialogues iv. 206 The rancorous attempts of the Romish adherents.

1704 Occas. Thoughts conc. our Present Div. 6 As old Ulcers in a Body Natural, are not easily healed, so rancorous Divisions in a Body Politick, are not suddenly united.

1784 De Lolme's Eng. Constit. Advt. p. xx Those lasting and rancorous divisions.

1812 J. N. Barker Marmion i. iv. 14 Those streams more savage though more fair, Where rancorous war with England still is waged.

1850 W. Irving Mahomet & his Successors II. vii. 36 Mahomet was keenly sensible of the rancorous opposition of this uncle.

1895 19th Cent. Nov. 785 Judgment should not be pronounced against Islâm and Islâmists on rancorous and partizan statements.

1932 Jrnl. Philos. 29 502 The rancorous opposition of the Jockey-club on account of Wagner's refusal to insert the customary ballet.

1969 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 77 1045 The shared values of different groups were submerged in rancorous debate over a technical issue.

a1992 L. Colwin Big Storm knocked it Over (1993) xii. 89 She and Teddy,..whose backgrounds included rancorous divorce and financial uncertainty.

4. Of a wound or sore: festering, inflamed, corrupt. Chiefly figurative and in figurative contexts.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective]

fouleOE

festereda1398

quitterya1398

quittorousa1398

festrya1400

purulent?a1425

suppurate?a1425

matterativec1487

mattereda1500

mattery1527

attery1535

sanious1562

festering1563

matterish1566

infestered1570

ulcerated1580

suppurated1583

sordid1597

corsie1605

fistulating1607

rankling1631

suppurable1634

rancorous1635

undercotted1636

undercotting1637

suppuratory1659

puriform1668

quittorish1668

suppurating1671

scandalous1676

suppurative1746

suppurant1799

gleety1822

puruloid1846

pyoid1846

colloid substance1849

peptic1884

pussy1888

maturable1889

fretty1894

1635 R. Brathwait tr. M. Silesio Arcadian Princesse iv. 199 Those rancorous wounds, which before were closed.

1660 J. Gauden Serm. Funeral Brounrig 243 Our wounds are so deep, so rankerous, and incurable.

1696 M. Pix Inhumane Cardinal 226 Bring to my despairing Soul, the only Balsam, that can heal it's rancorous Wounds.

1757 Protestant's Addr. p. v There is no curing such a deep and rancorous Sore without probing it to the Bottom.

1792 tr. J. G. Zimmermann Solitude Considered (ed. 2) ii. 27 When wisely applied, it [sc. solitude] will give immediate ease to the most rancorous wound that sorrow ever made.

1835 T. S. Fay Norman Leslie I. xxx. 206 That new rancorous wound, which only ceased to sting and torture him in death.

1869 Times 1 May 8/1 These outrages..had been described..as a constituting a rancorous sore in the body politic.

1901 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 25 Oct. 4/5 You will have to eliminate and bury forever that rancorous sore—police politics.

1986 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 3: Far East. Internat. Affairs (BBC) 31 Mar. FE/8220/A3/1 The rancorous wound received under slavery during the Japanese imperialist colonial rule.

2002 Federal Times (Nexis) 2 Sept. 15 Wallace Keene called the federal civil service ‘a rancorous sore that needs healing.’

Derivatives

ˈrancorously adv.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > bitterness > [adverb]

mortallyc1390

rancorously?c1663

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > bitterness > [adverb]

bitterlyc1000

hatelyOE

mortallyc1390

rancorously?c1663

?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 591 When she intreated his favour for her husband he rankorously denyed it.

1707 J. Dunton Athenian Sport xxx. 142/2 You are more venomously, more rancorously implacable.

1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xxiii. 166 He would not at one moment rancorously persecute, at another basely cringe to the favourite of his Sovereign.

1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xxi. 529 The whole community is rancorously divided into parties.

1871 Times 22 May 8/3 Lord Barrington was most rancorously libelled.

1933 Mod. Lang. Notes 48 18 The nature of this war without quarter is set forth rancorously in the account.

1996 Independent 28 Mar. 18/7 They actually have a Mummy and Daddy, rancorously separated, between whom they commute.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	rancorous
释义	rancorousadj. Brit. /ˈraŋk(ə)rəs/, U.S. /ˈræŋk(ə)rəs/ Forms: see rancour n. and -ous suffix; also 1500s ranckrous, 1500s–1600s rankrous, 1500s–1700s rancrous, 1600s ranck'rous, 1600s rank'rous. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rancour n., -ous suffix. Etymology: < rancour n. + -ous suffix. Compare Middle French rancureux irritated, annoyed (14th cent. in an apparently isolated attestation; earlier as rancorus, rancurus (late 12th cent. in Old French)), Occitan rancurós complaining (late 12th cent. in Old Occitan as rancuros), Catalan rancorós (11th cent. as †rancurós), Spanish rencoroso (early 12th cent. as noun in sense ‘plaintiff’ in legal contexts, early 13th cent. as adjective, both in form †rencuroso; also as †rancuroso), Portuguese rancoroso (end of the 11th cent. as †rancuroso). 1. Of a person, or a person's mind, heart, disposition, etc.: that feels or exhibits rancour. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > bitterness > [adjective] > of person rancorous?1517 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > bitterness > [adjective] > displaying rancour rancorous?1517 ?1517 King Henry VIII Let. in Camden Misc. (1992) XXXI. i. 32 Theire sensuall appetites and rancorous disposition against aliens and strangers. 1566 J. Partridge Worthie Hystorie Plasidas p. iii That your wisedome may bee the defence thereof agaynst the rancorous Zoilictes. a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. D3^v Can you..display your rancorous minds? 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 50 Because I cannot flatter..I must be held a rankerous enimy. View more context for this quotation a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 108 Even hatred it self, to a rancorous stomack, hath a kinde of wicked pleasure in it. 1681 J. Crowne Henry VI i. 38 'Tis ill policy To trust him with your Royal Person and Councels, Whose rancorous mind is now prepar'd for mischief. 1797 E. Burke Third Let. Peace Regicide Directory France 61 Throwing themselves and their Sovereign at the feet of a wicked and rancorous foe. 1823 S. W. Morton My Mind & its Thoughts 61 To the rancorous heart is given The hope of blessedness and heaven. 1877 M. Arnold Falkland in Nineteenth Century Mar. 154 In that age of harsh and rancorous tempers. 1921 E. L. White Andivius Hedulio iii. xxiv. 363 I have already in mind the very place for you, where none of your rancorous late associates can ever find you. 1956 W. B. Wells tr. G. Marañón Tiberius ii. i. 66 Between the two men there existed only a rancorous tension which gradually turned into hatred. 1990 A. Brookner Brief Lives viii. 85 He had left me alone—for ever, this time—and I resented it. I was dull, rancorous. 2004 Frederick (Maryland) News-Post 12 Apr. a10 Children..may be used as pawns by rancorous parents to punish each other. 2. Of a feeling or emotion: characterized by, or of the nature of, rancour. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > bitterness > [adjective] bitter971 festereda1398 sourc1450 rancorous1566 infestered1570 amarulent1583 stomachous1590 enfested1591 fellifluous1656 vitriolic1841 1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Medea v. f. 44 Now rancorus grefe with firy fits begins to boyle agayne. 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. B3 Boyling with rancorous hate against the remnaunt Troianes. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xi. sig. K8^v So flam'd his eyne with rage and rancorous yre. 1627 P. Fletcher Locustæ ii. xiii Her gracious love weighs downe our ranck'rous spight. 1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xiii. 121 Thus wicked and resolved sinners..entertaine rancorous affections. 1694 T. Southerne Fatal Marriage 65 The rancorous Malignity Of all ill Stars combin'd. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xi. vii. 145 It was Envy, the worst and most rancorous Kind of Envy, the Envy of Superiority of Understanding. View more context for this quotation 1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. l. 195 Malice..feasting with a rancorous rapture, upon the sordid catalogue of his distresses. 1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. App. 651 This excited rancorous envy in the breast of his uncle. 1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xix. 290 ‘Bully you?’ cried her father, in bitter, rancorous anger. 1946 Phoenix 1 15 This eye-witness..is inspired by the most rancorous hatred of the deceased. 1989 P. D. James Devices & Desires xiii. 87 You can't teach in an atmosphere of rancorous suspicion. 2001 T. M. Krier Birth Passages viii. 205 Blandamour hates Scudamour with a rancorous envy. 3. Of an action, event, etc.: proceeding from, or characterized by, rancour. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > bitterness > [adjective] bitterc1175 stomaching1579 amarulent1583 stomachous1590 gall-ful1596 gall-wet1597 virulent1607 stomachful1610 rancorousa1616 gallsome1633 bitter-hearted1775 vitriolic1841 a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. i. 6 The enmity and discord which of late Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your Duke. View more context for this quotation 1668 H. More Two Last Dialogues iv. 206 The rancorous attempts of the Romish adherents. 1704 Occas. Thoughts conc. our Present Div. 6 As old Ulcers in a Body Natural, are not easily healed, so rancorous Divisions in a Body Politick, are not suddenly united. 1784 De Lolme's Eng. Constit. Advt. p. xx Those lasting and rancorous divisions. 1812 J. N. Barker Marmion i. iv. 14 Those streams more savage though more fair, Where rancorous war with England still is waged. 1850 W. Irving Mahomet & his Successors II. vii. 36 Mahomet was keenly sensible of the rancorous opposition of this uncle. 1895 19th Cent. Nov. 785 Judgment should not be pronounced against Islâm and Islâmists on rancorous and partizan statements. 1932 Jrnl. Philos. 29 502 The rancorous opposition of the Jockey-club on account of Wagner's refusal to insert the customary ballet. 1969 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 77 1045 The shared values of different groups were submerged in rancorous debate over a technical issue. a1992 L. Colwin Big Storm knocked it Over (1993) xii. 89 She and Teddy,..whose backgrounds included rancorous divorce and financial uncertainty. 4. Of a wound or sore: festering, inflamed, corrupt. Chiefly figurative and in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective] fouleOE festereda1398 quitterya1398 quittorousa1398 festrya1400 purulent?a1425 suppurate?a1425 matterativec1487 mattereda1500 mattery1527 attery1535 sanious1562 festering1563 matterish1566 infestered1570 ulcerated1580 suppurated1583 sordid1597 corsie1605 fistulating1607 rankling1631 suppurable1634 rancorous1635 undercotted1636 undercotting1637 suppuratory1659 puriform1668 quittorish1668 suppurating1671 scandalous1676 suppurative1746 suppurant1799 gleety1822 puruloid1846 pyoid1846 colloid substance1849 peptic1884 pussy1888 maturable1889 fretty1894 1635 R. Brathwait tr. M. Silesio Arcadian Princesse iv. 199 Those rancorous wounds, which before were closed. 1660 J. Gauden Serm. Funeral Brounrig 243 Our wounds are so deep, so rankerous, and incurable. 1696 M. Pix Inhumane Cardinal 226 Bring to my despairing Soul, the only Balsam, that can heal it's rancorous Wounds. 1757 Protestant's Addr. p. v There is no curing such a deep and rancorous Sore without probing it to the Bottom. 1792 tr. J. G. Zimmermann Solitude Considered (ed. 2) ii. 27 When wisely applied, it [sc. solitude] will give immediate ease to the most rancorous wound that sorrow ever made. 1835 T. S. Fay Norman Leslie I. xxx. 206 That new rancorous wound, which only ceased to sting and torture him in death. 1869 Times 1 May 8/1 These outrages..had been described..as a constituting a rancorous sore in the body politic. 1901 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 25 Oct. 4/5 You will have to eliminate and bury forever that rancorous sore—police politics. 1986 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 3: Far East. Internat. Affairs (BBC) 31 Mar. FE/8220/A3/1 The rancorous wound received under slavery during the Japanese imperialist colonial rule. 2002 Federal Times (Nexis) 2 Sept. 15 Wallace Keene called the federal civil service ‘a rancorous sore that needs healing.’ Derivatives ˈrancorously adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > bitterness > [adverb] mortallyc1390 rancorously?c1663 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > bitterness > [adverb] bitterlyc1000 hatelyOE mortallyc1390 rancorously?c1663 ?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 591 When she intreated his favour for her husband he rankorously denyed it. 1707 J. Dunton Athenian Sport xxx. 142/2 You are more venomously, more rancorously implacable. 1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xxiii. 166 He would not at one moment rancorously persecute, at another basely cringe to the favourite of his Sovereign. 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xxi. 529 The whole community is rancorously divided into parties. 1871 Times 22 May 8/3 Lord Barrington was most rancorously libelled. 1933 Mod. Lang. Notes 48 18 The nature of this war without quarter is set forth rancorously in the account. 1996 Independent 28 Mar. 18/7 They actually have a Mummy and Daddy, rancorously separated, between whom they commute. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.?1517
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