Definition of "rankness" [rank•ness]

• The property of being rank, of having a repulsive odor, of being stinky, foul or malodorous. (noun)

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• "Related: Wev McEwan on the Rank and File's rankness."
• "He curses the sunlight, the earth and all of its people, the fetid alcohol rankness of his own breath."
• "It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy …."