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detestation
English
Etymology
From Middle French détestation.
Noun
detestation (countable and uncountable, plural detestations)
- Hate coupled with disgust; abhorrence.
- Something detested.
Translations
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rancour
English
Etymology
First attested as Middle English rancour in the early 13th century, from Old French rancor, from Latin rancor (“rancidity, grudge, rancor”), from *rance? (“be rotten or putrid, stink”), from which also English rancid.
Noun
rancour (countable and uncountable, plural rancours)
- Britain and Canada spelling of rancor
References
- rancour in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- rankor, rauncour, rancor, rankowre, rancur, rankour
Etymology
From Old French rancor, from Latin rancor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ran?ku?r/, /?rankur/
- (Late ME) IPA(key): /?rank?r/
Noun
rancour
- Jealousy, ire, towards someone; rancour (also as a metaphorical figure)
- (rare) Rancidity; something which smells vile.
- (rare) A belief that one is engaging in wrongdoing.
Descendants
- English: rancour, rancor
- Scots: rancour
References
- “ranc?ur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-30.
Old French
Noun
rancour f (oblique plural rancours, nominative singular rancour, nominative plural rancours)
- Late Anglo-Norman spelling of rancur
- il se douterent qe nous eussiens conceu vers eux rancour & indignacion
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