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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[AS.

rancness

pride.]

The condition or quality of being rank.

, n.

Vigorous growth; luxuriance; exuberance; as the rankness of plants or herbage.

Exuberance; excess; extravagance; as the rankness of pride; the rankness of joy.

Extraordinary strength.

The crane's pride is in the rankness of her wing.

Strong taste; as the rankness of flesh or fish.

Rancidness; rank smell; as the rankness of oil.

Excessiveness; as the rankness of a composition or modus.

rankness ‎(countable and uncountable, plural ranknesses)

the property of being rank