1 example sentence using rankness.
Rankness used in a sentence
Rankness in a sentence as a noun
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. The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
Rankness definitions
the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovely in their rankness"
See also: richness prolificacy fertility
the attribute of having a strong offensive smell
See also: malodorousness stinkiness foulness fetidness