All 14 Uses of
resent
in
Middlemarch
- She rose slowly without any sign of resentment, and said in her usual muffled monotone, "Brother, I hope the new doctor will be able to do something for you.†
Chpt 1resentment = a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- However it was, he did not distinctly say to himself on which side he would vote; and all the while he was inwardly resenting the subjection which had been forced upon him.†
Chpt 2resenting = feeling angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- "My judgment was a very superficial one—such as I am capable of forming," she answered, with a prompt resentment, that needed no rehearsal.†
Chpt 2resentment = a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- But this ill-tempered anticipation that she could desire visits which might be disagreeable to her husband, this gratuitous defence of himself against selfish complaint on her part, was too sharp a sting to be meditated on until after it had been resented.†
Chpt 3resented = felt angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- Alarm at the possible effect on himself of her husband's strongly manifested anger, would have checked any expression of her own resentment, even if she had been quite free from doubt and compunction under the consciousness that there might be some justice in his last insinuation.†
Chpt 4resentment = a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- This suffering was the harder to bear because it seemed like a betrayal: the young creature who had worshipped him with perfect trust had quickly turned into the critical wife; and early instances of criticism and resentment had made an impression which no tenderness and submission afterwards could remove.†
Chpt 4
- She had never deliberately allowed her resentment to govern her in this way before, but she believed now that she could not see him again without telling him the truth about her feeling, and she must wait till she could do it without interruption.†
Chpt 4
- "I think Fred ought not to need telling again what I have already said to him," Mary answered, with a slight resentment in her manner.†
Chpt 5
- He had scorned even to form conjectures about Mr. Vincy's intentions on money matters, and nothing but extremity could have induced him to apply to his father-in-law, even if he had not been made aware in various indirect ways since his marriage that Mr. Vincy's own affairs were not flourishing, and that the expectation of help from him would be resented.†
Chpt 6resented = felt angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- There was another presence which ever since the early days of her marriage, until four months ago, had been an agreeable excitement, but that was gone: Rosamond would not confess to herself how much the consequent blank had to do with her utter ennui; and it seemed to her (perhaps she was right) that an invitation to Quallingham, and an opening for Lydgate to settle elsewhere than in Middlemarch—in London, or somewhere likely to be free from unpleasantness—would satisfy her quite well, and make her indifferent to the absence of Will Ladislaw, towards whom she felt some resentment for his exaltation of Mrs. Casaubon.†
Chpt 7resentment = a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- Lydgate, who himself was undergoing a shock as from the terrible practical interpretation of some faint augury, felt, nevertheless, that his own movement of resentful hatred was checked by that instinct of the Healer which thinks first of bringing rescue or relief to the sufferer, when he looked at the shrunken misery of Bulstrode's livid face.†
Chpt 7resentful = full of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- He had begun to question her with the intent that their conversation should disperse the chill fog which had gathered between them, but he felt his resolution checked by despairing resentment.†
Chpt 8resentment = a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- It was not the change of emaciation, but that effect which even young faces will very soon show from the persistent presence of resentment and despondency.†
Chpt 8
- If so, it was a liberty that Rosamond resented; and she prepared herself to meet every word with polite impassibility.†
Chpt 8 *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.