bitterness
/ˈbɪtənəs/ noun B2- The quality of having a bitter taste.
- The quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment; the quality of exhibiting such feelings. · the bitterness of his words· She kept her bitterness about her mistreatment for the rest of her life.
- The quality of eliciting a bitter, humiliating or harsh feeling. · Nothing could assuage the bitterness of their defeat.
- Harsh cold. · The bitterness of the winter caught us all by surprise.
Plural bitternesses
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The guests were still at table, and the heated and energetic conversation that prevailed betrayed the violent and vindictive passions that then agitated each dweller of the South, where unhappily, for five centuries religious strife had long given increased bitterness to the violence of party feeling.
And then bidding Diana goodbye-e-e--” Here Anne broke down entirely and wept with increasing bitterness.
But the bitterness of her old grievance promptly stiffened up her wavering determination.
“But, oh, Marilla, I really felt that I had tasted the bitterness of death, as Mr.
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