0 a feeling of hate and continuing anger about something in the past:
The conference showed that, even after a retreat on the issue of the family, the administration constantly ran into dissent and disagreement, if not rancour.
His contempt for these things was invariably free of rancour.
For the moment, the situation is the source of much rancour and confusion.
Although the affair is concealed from strangers (especially if they happen to be potential donors), it is a source of anger, rancour and distrust at the local level.
However, that "undefined feeling of immeasurable existence aloof from her" does rancorously persist; and it could be said to produce knowledge, of a kind, as well as rancour.
But as a party we are not so anxious to pay off scores, or to indulge in rancour and revenge, as to contribute.
Are we not glad that peoples who were conquered by us are at last liberated, not in a spirit of rancour but of good will?
But, in the course of that overstatement, it is easy to come to the conclusion that these countries harbour immense spite and rancour against us.
