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▪ I. rankling, vbl. n.|ˈræŋklɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
The action of the vb. rankle.
14..Stockh. Medical MS. i. 310 in Anglia XVIII. 303 Al þe rancelynge schall owyr gon. Ibid. 316 Þe rank[l]ynge schal swage away. c1450M.E. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 224 Hyt wolle aswage ranclyng of woundes. 1578Lyte Dodoens i. xlix. 71 Corruption, festering or inward ranckling. 1614Markham Cheap Husb. (1623) 127 To preuent the ranckling and impostumation of the soare. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. xx, His limbs..swelled with the rankling of his..wounds. 1795–1814Wordsw. Excurs. iv. 212 Ill-governed passions, ranklings of despite. 1832Macaulay Ess., Hampden, A rankling which may last for many years.
▪ II. rankling, ppl. a.|ˈræŋklɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That rankles: a. In intransitive senses.
1528Roy Rede me, etc. (Arb.) 25 One rancklynge member [putrifieth] the whole boddy. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. vi. 44 Two Bores, with rancling malice mett. 1631Gouge God's Arrows iii. §95. 363 The daily licking of his ranckling wounds. 1746Smollett Reproof 98 Thy rankling pen produces nought but gall. 1768Beattie Minstrel i. xli, Dark error's den, whose rankling slime First gave you form. 1868Farrar Silence & Voices ix. (1875) 152 It was not the rankling wound of an enemy.
b. In transitive senses.
1635Quarles Embl. ii. xi, Whose ranckling pricks are sharp, and fell. 1742Gray Ode Eton Coll. 66 Jealousy with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the secret heart. 1821J. Baillie Met. Leg., Colum. xlii, His rankling chain. 1846O. W. Holmes Rhymed Lesson (1883) 72 Shall I wound with satire's rankling spear?
Hence ˈranklingly adv.
1860Sir J. B. Burke Viciss. Fam. Ser. ii. 128 The high-hearted boy..ranklingly nurtured that mixture of fiercely vengeful and patriotic spirit. |