All 5 Uses of
resent
in
Childhood's End
- I do not know which we resent more— Karellen's omnipotence, or his secrecy.†
Chpt 2resent = feel angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- It was hard not to feel resentment against these Olympians who spoke to man only over the radio-teleprinter circuits at United Nations Headquarters.†
Chpt 2 *resentment = a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- Jan Rodricks had resented that protection and had escaped from it —into no-one knew what.†
Chpt 16resented = felt angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- And do you not resent being used as a tool by the Over-mind?†
Chpt 23resent = feel angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- The arrangement has some advantages: besides, no-one of intelligence resents the inevitable.†
Chpt 23resents = feels 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.