Resented vs Resentful - What's the difference?
resented | resentful |
(resent)
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)
Inclined to resent, who tends to harbor resentment, when .
Harboring resentment, full of resentment, at a given moment.
As a verb resented
is past tense of resent.As an adjective resentful is
inclined to resent, who tends to harbor resentment, when wronged.resented
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Verb
(head)resent
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(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.
