different between rancour vs hatred

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)

1. 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

1. Jealousy, ire, towards someone; rancour (also as a metaphorical figure)
2. (rare) Rancidity; something which smells vile.
3. (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)

1. Late Anglo-Norman spelling of rancur

   il se douterent qe nous eussiens conceu vers eux rancour & indignacion

English

Etymology

From Middle English hatrede, hatreden (“hatred”), from hate (“hate”) + -reden (“suffix denoting state or condition”), equivalent to hate +? -red; compare lovered. Related to Icelandic hatri (“hatred”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?he?t??d/

Noun

hatred (countable and uncountable, plural hatreds)

1. Strong aversion; intense dislike
   • 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.

     the very circumstance which renders it so innocent is what chiefly exposes it to the public hatred

Usage notes

The noun hatred is not used as a modifier in compound nouns; instead, its synonym hate is used, as, for example, in hate crime.

Synonyms

• hate
• antipathy
• hostility

Antonyms

• love
• amity

Related terms

• hate
• hateful
• disgust

Translations

Anagrams

• Dehart, dareth, dearth, hetdar, thread

Middle English

Noun

hatred

1. Alternative form of hatrede