All 3 Uses of
resent
in
Anna Karenina
- But this news had not produced what she had expected in him; he simply seemed as though he were resenting some affront.†
Part 3resenting = feeling angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- I should not be able to speak to her without a feeling of reproach; I could not look at her without resentment; and she will only hate me all the more, as she's bound to.†
Part 3resentment = a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- Obviously the landowner was chaffing Sviazhsky, who, far from resenting it, was apparently amused by it.†
Part 3 *resenting = feeling 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.