RANKNESS

n. 1. Vigorous growth; luxuriance; exuberance; as the rankness of plants or herbage.
2. Exuberance; excess; extravagance; as the rankness of pride; the rankness of joy.
3. Extraordinary strength.
The crane's pride is in the rankness of her wing.
4. Strong taste; as the rankness of flesh or fish.
5. Rancidness; rank smell; as the rankness of oil.
6. Excessiveness; as the rankness of a composition or modus.

RANKNESS

Rank "ness, n. Etym: [AS. rancness pride. ]