Resent vs Objection - What's the difference?
resent | objection |
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)
The act of objecting.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=
, volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= A statement expressing opposition, or a reason or cause for expressing opposition (generally followed by the adposition to ).
(legal) An official protest raised in a court of law during a legal trial over a violation of the rules of the court by the opposing party.
As a verb resent
is to express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at (words or acts) or resent can be (resend).As a noun objection is
the act of objecting.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 heteronymsobjection
English
Noun
(en noun)Ed Pilkington
‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}