resent

To feel resentment over; to consider as an affront.

Verb

  1. To feel resentment over; to consider as an affront.
    • The bride greatly resented being left at the church.
    • These books will fill, and well fill, certain stretches of life […] But in old or nervous or solemnest or dying hours, when one needs the impalpably soothing and vitalizing influences of abysmic Nature, or its...
    • Mother very rightly resented the slightest hint of condescension. She considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and...
  2. To express displeasure or indignation at.
    • Do you resent us for offering you that choice?
    • The good prince King James […] bore dishonourably what he might have resented safely. - 1743, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Remarks on the History of England:
  3. To be sensible of; to feel.
  4. In a positive sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.
    • […] which makes the tragical ends of noble persons more favorably resented by compassionate readers. - 1658, Thomas Browne, “(please specify the page)”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of...
  5. To recognize; to perceive, especially as if by smelling; -- associated in meaning with sent, the older spelling of scent, to smell. See resent (intransitive verb).
    • Perchance as vulturs are ſaid to ſmell the earthlineſſe of a dying corps; ſo this bird of prey reſented a worſe than earthly ſavour in the ſoul of Saul, an evidence of his death at hand. - 1642, Thomas Fuller, “The...
    • But our King Henrie the ſeventh (being too good a ſenſer to miſtake a flouriſh for a blow) quickly reſented his drift (which was to perſwade our King to peace, till Charles ſhould perform his projects in little Britain...
  6. To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.

Origin

From Middle French ressentir, resentir, from Old French resentir (Modern ressentir), from re- + sentir (“to feel”).

Forms

resents resenting resented

Derived

resentable resenter resentful resentingly resentive unresented unresenting

Verb form of, participle

  1. simple past and past participle of resend
    • The package was resent, this time with the correct postage.

Origin

See resend.

Forms

re-sent