All 10 Uses of
resent
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The House of the Seven Gables
- He appeared to gaze at the curious crowd, in front of which stood the lieutenant-governor; and there was a frown on his dark and massive countenance, as if sternly resentful of the boldness that had impelled them into his private retirement.†
Chpt 1resentful = full of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- Thus the Maules, at all events, kept their resentments within their own breasts.†
Chpt 1resentments = things about which one feels angry or unhappy due to having to accept them
- what horrible disturbance have we now in the house?" cried he, wreaking his resentful impatience—as a matter of course, and a custom of old—on the one person in the world that loved him.†
Chpt 7resentful = full of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- Do you speak these words to me, Hepzibah?" said Clifford,—not angrily, however; for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offences, but never resentful of great ones.†
Chpt 7
- "Woman!" broke forth the Judge, giving way to his resentment, "what is the meaning of all this?†
Chpt 8resentment = a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- Her features, never the most agreeable, and now harsh with age and grief, and resentment against the world for his sake; her dress, and especially her turban; the queer and quaint manners, which had unconsciously grown upon her in solitude,—such being the poor gentlewoman's outward characteristics, it is no great marvel, although the mournfullest of pities, that the instinctive lover of the Beautiful was fain to turn away his eyes.†
Chpt 9
- "If you can find anything for your purpose, Mr. Pyncheon," said the carpenter, "in a man's natural resentment for the wrongs done to his blood, you are welcome to it."†
Chpt 13 *
- "I take you at your word, Goodman Maule," said the owner of the Seven Gables, with a smile, "and will proceed to suggest a mode in which your hereditary resentments—justifiable or otherwise—may have had a bearing on my affairs.†
Chpt 13resentments = things about which one feels angry or unhappy due to having to accept them
- Nor will it become me to resent any rudeness towards either my grandfather or myself.†
Chpt 13resent = feel angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- Without premeditation, to her own surprise, and indeed terror, she had given vent, for once, to the inveteracy of her resentment, cherished against this kinsman for thirty years.†
Chpt 15resentment = a feeling of anger or unhappiness at 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.