resent

• WordNet 3.6
  • v resent feel bitter or indignant about "She resents being paid less than her co-workers"
  • v resent wish ill or allow unwillingly
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• • Resent In a bad sense, to take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be indignant at.
  • Resent In a good sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.
  • Resent To be sensible of; to feel
  • Resent 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."
  • Resent To feel resentment.
  • Resent To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor. "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."
  • Resent 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. "This bird of prey resented a worse than earthly savor in the soul of Saul.""Our King Henry the Seventh quickly resented his drift."
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• • resent To perceive by the senses; have a keen or strong sense, perception, or feeling of; be affected by.
  • resent Hence. specifically
  • resent To scent; perceive by the sense of smell.
  • resent To give the odor of; present to the sense of smell.
  • resent To have a certain sense or feeling at something; take well or ill; have satisfaction from or regret for.
  • resent To take ill; consider as an injury or affront; be in some degree angry or provoked at; hence, also, to show anger by words or acts.
  • resent To bear; endure.
  • resent Synonyms See anger.
  • resent To have a, certain flavor; savor.
  • resent To feel resentment; be indignant.
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• • v.t Resent rē-zent′ to take ill: to consider as an injury or affront: to be indignant at: to express indignation: to have a strong perception of: to perceive by the sense of smell—v.i. to be indignant
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• Source Unknown

  

  “Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquillity -- instead of anger and resentment”
• Buddha

  

  “Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.”
• Georg C. Lichtenberg

  

  “A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.”
• Charles Churchill

  

  “Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.”
• Source Unknown

  

  “It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.”
• Adam Smith

  

  “Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.”

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