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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rancour /ˈraŋkə(r)/ (US rancor)

▶noun bitterness; resentment.

– derivatives
rancorous adjective,
rancorously adverb.

– origin ME: via OFr. from late L. rancor ‘rankness’ (in the Vulgate ‘bitter grudge’), rel. to L. rancidus ‘stinking’.

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