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Heartburning   Listen
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Heartburning  adj.  Causing discontent.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Heartburning" Quotes from Famous Books



... State, placing all denominations on a like footing and leaving each to support its own religious establishments from the funds of its own people. They believed that these measures would remove from the public arena causes of strife and heartburning, and would bring about solid prosperity and internal peace. The battle was fought vigorously. "The most determined efforts were put forth for the final but just settlement of all those vexed questions by which religious sects ...
— George Brown • John Lewis

... quite apart from any action of your closer personal friends. Personally I am rather of your mind about the "dozen or score" of the faithful. But as that was by no means to the mind of those who started the project, and, moreover, might have given rise to some heartburning, I have not thought it desirable to meddle with the process of spontaneous combustion. So look out for a big bonfire somewhere in the middle of June! I have a hideous cold, and can only hope that the bracing air of Cambridge, where we go on Saturday, ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley



Words linked to "Heartburning" :   rancor, bitterness, resentment, gall



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