All 3 Uses of
resent
in
Moby Dick
- His aspect was most horrible, and such as indicated resentment and fury.†
Chpt 43-45 *resentment = a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- At intervals, he ran close up to the revolving border of the confusion, and prying into the heart of it with his pike, sought to prick out the object of his resentment.†
Chpt 52-54
- "Captain Ahab," said the reddening mate, moving further into the cabin, with a daring so strangely respectful and cautious that it almost seemed not only every way seeking to avoid the slightest outward manifestation of itself, but within also seemed more than half distrustful of itself; "A better man than I might well pass over in thee what he would quickly enough resent in a younger man; aye, and in a happier, Captain Ahab."†
Chpt 109-111resent = feel angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
Definition:
to feel anger or unhappiness about something seen as unjust or something that creates jealousy