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 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
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, Sae dauntingly gaed he; He play’d a spring, and danced it round, Below the gallows tree.
From Life of Robert Burns by Thomas Carlyle
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
Chorus.—Sae rantingly, sae wantonly, Sae dauntingly gaed he; He play'd a spring, and danc'd it round, Below the gallows-tree.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
