Refuse vs Resent - What's the difference?
refuse | resent |
(UK) Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
To decline (a request or demand).
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To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
(military) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy.
(obsolete) To disown.
* Shakespeare
To express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at (words or acts).
* Bolingbroke
To feel resentment.
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, chapter=2 (obsolete) To be sensible of; to feel.
(obsolete) In a positive sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.
* Sir (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
(obsolete) In a negative sense, to take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be indignant at.
(obsolete) To recognize; to perceive, especially as if by smelling; -- associated in meaning with sent, the older spelling of scent to smell. See resent (intransitive verb).
* Fuller
* Fuller
(obsolete) To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.
(resend)
In obsolete terms the difference between refuse and resent
is that refuse is refusal while resent is to give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.As verbs the difference between refuse and resent
is that refuse is to decline (a request or demand) while resent is to express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at (words or acts).As an adjective refuse
is discarded, rejected.As a noun refuse
is collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.refuse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(-)Synonyms
* discards * garbage (US ) * rubbish (UK ) * trash (US ) * See alsoEtymology 2
From (etyl) refuser, from .Verb
(refus)- My request for a pay rise was refused .
- I refuse to listen to this nonsense any more.
- If ye refuse ye shall be devoured with the sword.
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- I asked the star if I could have her autograph, but she refused .
- to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks
- Refuse thy name.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeSynonyms
* (decline) decline, reject, nill, say no to, turn down, veto, withsake * (decline a request or demand) say no, forbearresent
English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
From (etyl) resentir (Modern ressentir), fromVerb
(en verb)- The good prince King James bore dishonourably what he might have resented safely.
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- which makes the tragical ends of noble persons more favorably resented by compassionate readers.
- This bird of prey resented a worse than earthly savour in the soul of Saul.
- Our King Henry the Seventh quickly resented his drift.
Etymology 2
See resend.Verb
(head)- The package was resent , this time with the correct postage.