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rankling

rankling

English

Verb

rankling

present participle of rankle

Noun

rankling ‎(plural ranklings)

A sensation that rankles.
- Walt Whitman
  I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women, / I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid […]