heartburning

Noun

heartburning (plural heartburnings)

1. Secret enmity; discontent.
   • [N]ecessity may abolish any law, but cannot alter the sentiments of the vulgar; right of inheritance being perhaps the most popular of all topicks; and therefore in great changes, when that is broke, there will remain much heart-burning and discontent among the meaner people; which (under a weak...1721 January 20 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Jonathan Swift, “[Letters between Dr. Swift and Mr. [Alexander] Pope […]] Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The...
   • [John] Winthrop, acting with the concurrence of Wilson, whom the delicacy of his position compelled to reserve, with difficulty succeeded in parrying the blow. But the transaction did not fail to leave heart-burnings.1858, John Gorham Palfrey, chapter XII, in History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty. […], volume I, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, book I, page 475
2. Heartburn.
   • Hee sett Promethius, on a merrye pynn, / Whoe dranke soe devillishly, that there he gott / A terrible heartburninge, […]c. 1631–1633 (first performance), [John Clavell], edited by John Henry Pyle Pafford and W[alter] W[ilson] Greg, The Soddered Citizen (The Malone Society Reprints; 82), London: […] [F]or the Malone...