Resent vs Scorn - What's the difference?
resent | scorn |
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 feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
* C. J. Smith
To scoff, express contempt.
To reject, turn down
To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
(uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
(countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
* Dryden
(countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
* Bible, Psalms xliv. 13
As verbs the difference between resent and scorn
is that resent is to express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at (words or acts) while scorn is to feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.As a noun scorn is
contempt or disdain.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 heteronymsscorn
English
Verb
(en verb)- We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.
- He scorned her romantic advances.
- She scorned to show weakness.
Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
- Every sullen frown and bitter scorn / But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.
- Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.