Synonyms for rankness


Grammar : Noun
Spell : rangk
Phonetic Transcription : ræŋk

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Définition of rankness

Origin :
  • early 14c., "row, line series;" c.1400, a row of an army, from Old French renc, ranc "row, line" (Modern French rang), from Frankish *hring or some other Germanic source (cf. Old High German hring "circle, ring"), from Proto-Germanic *khrengaz "circle, ring" (see ring (n.1)).
  • Meaning "a social division, class of persons" is from early 15c. Meaning "high station in society" is from early 15c. Meaning "a relative position" is from c.1600.
  • noun flagrancy
Example sentences :
  • Its flesh is white and delicate, and has the usual taste, without any rankness.
  • Extract from : « The History of Louisiana » by Le Page Du Pratz
  • Their flesh has no rankness, nor is inferiour in flavour to our common venison.
  • Extract from : « A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland » by Samuel Johnson
  • And the rankness of the growth of this evil is not more startling than its rapidity.
  • Extract from : « Public School Education » by Michael Mller
  • The chief resemblance seemed to be a certain "rankness in cussin'."
  • Extract from : « Polly » by Thomas Nelson Page
  • Owing to the rankness of its food, the smell of the Fulmar is very offensive.
  • Extract from : « British Birds in their Haunts » by Rev. C. A. Johns
  • This it does in some instances by smothering them, through the rankness of the growth.
  • Extract from : « Clovers and How to Grow Them » by Thomas Shaw
  • I smelled the rankness of his rags as he thrust one grimy paw at the girl.
  • Extract from : « The Door Through Space » by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • It is merely comic—a farcical incident, selected, not for the rankness of its details, but for its dramatic capabilities.
  • Extract from : « Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol II of 2) » by John Addington Symonds
  • It would appear to be this grosser sense of rankness, arrogance, in which Amos vi.
  • Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Book of the Twelve Prophets, Vol. I » by George Adam Smith
  • Rankness affords, in fact, a typical illustration of predisposition to disease.
  • Extract from : « Disease in Plants » by H. Marshall Ward

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