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Definition of Rankling
1. rankle [v] - See also: rankle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rankling
Literary usage of Rankling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Politics (non-partisan) from the Beginning to Date: Embodying a by Thomas Valentine Cooper (1892)
"But whether his shafts were, or were not, dipped in that which would have caused
rankling if they had reached, there was not, as it happened, quite strength ..."
2. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1809)
"... Such sudden rage his rankling mind possest, When* GAMA'S lips Messiah's name
confest. Oh depth of heaven's dread will, that rancorous hate On heaven's ..."
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