rankness

rankness englannista suomeksi

1. tuottavuus

2. pahanhajuisuus

0. Substantiivi

rankness englanniksi

1. The quality of being rank, of having a repulsive or pungent odor.

2. 1578, (w) ''et al.'', ''(w)'', Volume I, Book 3, Chapter 1 “Of cattell kept for profit,” p.(nbs)222,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68197.0001.001

(..) the bowels of the beast are commonlie cast awaie because of their ranknesse (..)

3. {{quote-text|en|year=1933|author=Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings|title=South Moon Under|url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500451h.html|chapter=34

4. Exuberant or uncontrolled growth.

5. 1706, (w), “To my Dear Friend Mr. Congreve, On His Comedy, call’d, The Double-Dealer” in ''(w)'' by (w), London: Jacob Tonson,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004817064.0001.000

Like ''Janus'' he the stubborn Soil manur’d,

With Rules of Husbandry the Rankness cur’d:

Tam’d us to Manners, when the Stage was rude;

And boistrous ''English'' Wit, with Art indu’d.

6. {{quote-text|en|year=1847|author=Emily Brontë|title=Wuthering Heights|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/768/768-h/768-h.htm|chapter=18

7. {{quote-book|en|year=1970|author=Barry Unsworth|title=The Hide|location=New York|publisher=Norton|year_published=1997|page=139|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/hidenortonpaperb00barr

8. Exuberance, excessiveness.

9. (RQ:Shakespeare Henry 8)

10. Insolence.

11. (RQ:Shakespeare As You Like It)