resent
[ri-zent]
- to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.
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Origin of resent
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Examples from the Web for resenting
Contemporary Examples
He seems to have inflamed the only remaining socially acceptable prejudice: resenting the rich.
I sat in a suite at the Savoy hotel, in privilege, resenting the woeful ratbag I once was who, for all his problems, had drugs.
He has spent much of his political life battling with and resenting the princes.
Historical Examples
The King, who had noticed it, began by resenting it from his daughter-in-law.
The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, CompleteMadame La Marquise De Montespan
This outrage the Emperor was unable to prevent his subjects from resenting.
Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, CompleteLewis Goldsmith
And I am not alone in resenting your reactionary tendencies.
ScaramoucheRafael Sabatini
"No new complications," said his wife, as if resenting the word.
A Fearful Responsibility and Other StoriesWilliam D. Howells
"I go when I please," said I, resenting the question as I was meant to resent it.
The King's MirrorAnthony Hope
resent
- (tr) to feel bitter, indignant, or aggrieved at
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Word Origin
C17: from French ressentir, from re- + sentir to feel, from Latin sentīre to perceive; see sense
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Word Origin and History for resenting
resent
v.
"take (something) ill; be in some degree angry or provoked at," c.1600, from French ressentir "feel pain, regret," from Old French resentir "feel again, feel in turn" (13c.), from re-, intensive prefix, + sentir "to feel," from Latin sentire (see sense (n.)). Related: Resented; resenting.
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