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Resent   /rɪzˈɛnt/  /rizˈɛnt/   Listen
verb
Resent  v. t.  (past & past part. resented; pres. part. resenting)  
1.
To be sensible of; to feel; as:
(a)
In a good sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction. (Obs.) "Which makes the tragical ends of noble persons more favorably resented by compassionate readers."
(b)
In a bad sense, to take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be indignant at.
2.
To express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at, as by words or acts. "The good prince King James... bore dishonorably what he might have resented safely."
3.
To recognize; to perceive, especially as if by smelling; associated in meaning with sent, the older spelling of scent to smell. See Resent, v. i. (Obs.) "This bird of prey resented a worse than earthly savor in the soul of Saul." "Our King Henry the Seventh quickly resented his drift."


Resent  v. i.  
1.
To feel resentment.
2.
To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor. (Obs.) "The judicious prelate will prefer a drop of the sincere milk of the word before vessels full of traditionary pottage resenting of the wild gourd of human invention."





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"Resent" Quotes from Famous Books



... that he recollects, too often. Perhaps he is glad to get on a line of veracity. The General says "of course," also. "Your mother, my dear, was Mrs. Graythorpe when I knew her at Umballa and on the boat." Both these veterans call Sally "my dear," and she doesn't resent it. ...
— Somehow Good • William de Morgan
... I can stand it, and whether I resent it or not cannot be a matter of much import to you or the others. And I'll try not to be disagreeable. Just why did you come to ...
— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne
... resent Barbara's refusing his help and accepting Worth's. He went back to his vise; the two others strolled together through the doorway into the garage, talking there for a moment in quick, low tones; then Barbara ...
— The Million-Dollar Suitcase • Alice MacGowan
... at the tactless way in which the well-meaning Lord Mayor, Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P., imparted to his guests the pleasure it was to him to meet with mere talent after being satiated with blood and rank in the persons of Royalties, Dukes, and Cabinet Ministers. He made them feel, in fact—and resent not a little—how hitherto the Mansion House had drawn its line at them, an error which Sir Stuart Knill in 1893 had the better taste to avoid. Somewhat of a similar blunder was made by Lord Carlisle, who invited Thackeray, Jerrold, and others of the Punch men ...
— The History of "Punch" • M. H. Spielmann
... was nettled at the inattention of the Duke. He was of that large and sanguine nature which is at once easily touched by any discourtesy and very quick to resent it. ...
— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett


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