Synonyms for rankness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : rangk |
| Phonetic Transcription : ræŋk |
Top 10 synonyms for rankness
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
- 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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