Resent vs Abhor - What's the difference?
resent | abhor |
To express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at (words or acts).
* Bolingbroke
To feel resentment.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, 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)
To regard with horror or detestation; to shrink back with shuddering from; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe.
* 1611 , Romans 12:9, (w):
(transitive, obsolete, impersonal) To fill with horror or disgust.
* c. 1604 (William Shakespeare), Othello , act 4, scene 1:
To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.
(transitive, canon law, obsolete) To protest against; to reject solemnly.
* c. 1613 (William Shakespeare), Henry VIII , act 2, scene 4:
(obsolete) To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse;
* (Udall):
* (Milton):
(obsolete) Differ entirely from.
As verbs the difference between resent and abhor
is that resent is to express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at (words or acts) while abhor is to regard with horror or detestation; to shrink back with shuddering from; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe.resent
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.
citation, passage=Mother very rightly resented the slightest hint of condescension. She considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom,
- 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.
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* English heteronymsabhor
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(abhorr)- Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
- It does abhor me now I speak the word.
- I utterly abhor , yea, from my soul Refuse you for my judge.
- To abhor from those vices.
- Which is utterly abhorring from the end of all law.