All 7 Uses of
resent
in
Washington Square, by Henry James
- She did not resent the imputation of weakness; it made no impression on her, for she had not the sense of weakness, and she was not hurt at not being appreciated.†
Chpt 18resent = feel angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- Her father's displeasure had cost the girl, as we know, a great deal of deep-welling sorrow—sorrow of the purest and most generous kind, without a touch of resentment or rancour; but for the first time, after he had dismissed with such contemptuous brevity her apology for being a charge upon him, there was a spark of anger in her grief.†
Chpt 23resentment = a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- The statement failed to appeal to her credence, and it was not grateful to any resentment that she entertained.†
Chpt 24
- This seemed a rather gross way of putting it, and something that there was of dignity in Catherine resented it.†
Chpt 24resented = felt angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- Beware of the just resentment of a deluded fortune-hunter!†
Chpt 27resentment = a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- But she soon perceived that Catherine had taken nothing with her—all her personal property in her room was intact—and then she jumped at the hypothesis that the girl had gone forth, not in tenderness, but in resentment.†
Chpt 30
- But at the bottom she hated to be violent, and she was conscious of no aptitude for organised resentment.†
Chpt 30 *
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.