All 4 Uses of
resent
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- He resented Mrs. Cruncher's saying grace with particular animosity.†
Chpt 2.1resented = felt angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- If you had been a fellow of any sensitiveness or delicacy of feeling in that kind of way, Sydney, I might have been a little resentful of your employing such a designation; but you are not.†
Chpt 2.11resentful = full of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- He knew very well, that in his horror of the deed which had culminated the bad deeds and bad reputation of the old family house, in his resentful suspicions of his uncle, and in the aversion with which his conscience regarded the crumbling fabric that he was supposed to uphold, he had acted imperfectly.†
Chpt 2.24
- I always observed that their pride bitterly resented the younger brother's (as I call him) having crossed swords with a peasant, and that peasant a boy.†
Chpt 3.10 *resented = felt angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
Definitions:
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(1)
(resent) to feel anger or unhappiness about something seen as unjust or something that creates jealousy
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, resent is another spelling for re-sent; i.e., sent again.