heartburning

[ hahrt-bur-ning ]

noun

1. rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.

Word History and Origins

Origin of heartburning¹

First recorded in 1505–15; heart + burning

Example Sentences

So passed a year, full of anxiety and heartburning for them, full of the sweetest happiness for me.

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Much heartburning and much needless trouble often come of "offences" which exist only in imagination.

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In the following pages is the Courant confession of Burke, about which there was so much difficulty and heartburning.

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This is why a question apparently of pure science turns out practically so full of inward heartburning and mutual reviling.

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It reduced his heartburning to melancholy, and he exclaimed, "Why the deuce did I come here!"

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