resent

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

• IPA^(key): /ɹiˈzɛnt/, /ɹɪˈzɛnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt

resent (third-person singular simple present resents, present participle resenting, simple past and past participle resented)

1. (transitive) To feel resentment over; to consider as an affront.

   The bride greatly resented being left at the church.

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎:

     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 whoredom, […] .

2. (transitive) To express displeasure or indignation at.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Bolingbroke

     The good prince King James […] bore dishonourably what he might have resented safely.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To be sensible of; to feel.
4. (transitive, obsolete) In a positive sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Sir Thomas Browne

     […] which makes the tragical ends of noble persons more favorably resented by compassionate readers.

5. (obsolete) 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).
   • (Can we date this quote?) Fuller

     This bird of prey resented a worse than earthly savour in the soul of Saul.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Fuller

     Our King Henry the Seventh quickly resented his drift.

6. (obsolete) To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.

See resend.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹiːˈsɛnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt

resent

1. simple past tense and past participle of resend

   The package was resent, this time with the correct postage.

• resent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• resent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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