rant
verb (used without object)
to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently; talk in a wild or vehement way; rave.
rantingly
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a word derived from
rant.
Example Sentences
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Sae rantingly, sae wantonly, Sae dauntingly gaed he; He play’d a spring, and danc’d it round, Below the gallows-tree.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
Sae rantingly, sae wantonly, jovially Sae dauntingly gaed he; He played a spring and danced it round, lively tune Below the gallows tree.
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by William Allan Neilson
Sae rantingly, sae wantingly, Sae dantingly gaed he, He play'd a spring and danced a round Beneath the gallows tree!
From Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott
In the pulpit he expresses himself easily, often fervently, never rantingly.
From Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus
Whitredge's summing-up was as lame in effect as it was rantingly emotional.
From Branded by Francis Lynde
