Crossword clues for heartburning
heartburning
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Heartburning \Heart"burn`ing\ (-b[^u]rn`[i^]ng), a. Causing discontent.
Heartburning \Heart"burn`ing\, n.
(Med.) Same as Heartburn.
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Discontent; secret enmity.
--Swift.The transaction did not fail to leave heartburnings.
--Palfrey.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context medicine English) heartburn 2 discontent; secret enmity
WordNet
n. intense resentment; "his promotion caused much heartburning among his rivals"
Usage examples of "heartburning".
To secure a continuance of that devotion the compromises of the Constitution must not only be preserved, but sectional jealousies and heartburnings must be discountenanced, and all should remember that they are members of the same political family, having a common destiny.
If the compromises of the Constitution be preserved, if sectional jealousies and heartburnings be discountenanced, if our laws be just and the Government be practically administered strictly within the limits of power prescribed to it, we may discard all apprehensions for the safety of the Union.
They had witnessed the heartburnings of rival chiefs, and the dissensions among the patriots.
What heartburnings there will be when at last he throws the handkerchief!
For years they had clung to the one field which faced their windows, and it was only after much argument and many heartburnings, that they had at last consented that it should share the fate of the others.
Thus the enmities and heartburnings of these parties were increased even by the usual means by which discord is made to cease and quarrels are turned into friendship.