rant

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rant / rant/ • v. [intr.] speak or shout at length in a wild, impassioned way: she was still ranting on about the unfairness of it all.• n. a spell of ranting; a tirade: his rants against organized religion.PHRASES: rant and rave shout and complain angrily and at length.DERIVATIVES: rant·er n.rant·ing·ly adv.

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rant. Old Eng. 17th-cent. dance of the jig variety. It originated in Scotland and N. England. Four examples occur in Playford's The Dancing Master (1657 and 1665 revisions).

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE

rant

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rant †be uproariously merry; declaim in an extravagant manner. XVI. — Du. †ranten talk foolishly, rave.
Hence sb. XVII.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology T. F. HOAD

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Rant

fanatics collectively.

Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms

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