0 a feeling of hate and continuing anger about something in the past:
1 bitter anger or unfriendly feelings:
Can we settle this disagreement without rancor?
Second, political clout as well as economic power has shielded this group from pastoralists rancor.
That question has inspired a surprising degree of rancor.
Irrefutable evidence, as in the classic case of plate tectonics, can also resolve scientific disagreements, but is usually accompanied by much rancor before one side finally concedes.
The song is saying goodbye to someone in good shape, without rancor or hatred, if it did not work better to say goodbye.
They proved incompatible, and the marriage soon ended without rancor.
The dog wakes up in rancor at this disturbance and the cat runs away, finding shelter by climbing up a lamp.
Rancor was wounded in an earlier encounter and no longer has arms.
It also led, however, to rancor; what had previously been a debate characterized by logic erupted into name-calling.