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/rɪzˈɛnt/ /rizˈɛnt/ Listen

verb

Resend v. t. (past & past part. resent; pres. part. resending)

1.

To send again; as, to resend a message.

2.

To send back; as, to resend a gift. (Obs.)

3.

(Telegraphy) To send on from an intermediate station by means of a repeater.

Resent v. t. (past & past part. resented; pres. part. resenting)

1.

To be sensible of; to feel; as:

(a)

In a good sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction. (Obs.) "Which makes the tragical ends of noble persons more favorably resented by compassionate readers."

(b)

In a bad sense, to take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be indignant at.

2.

To express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at, as by words or acts. "The good prince King James... bore dishonorably what he might have resented safely."

3.

To recognize; to perceive, especially as if by smelling; associated in meaning with sent, the older spelling of scent to smell. See Resent, v. i. (Obs.) "This bird of prey resented a worse than earthly savor in the soul of Saul." "Our King Henry the Seventh quickly resented his drift."

Resent v. i.

1.

To feel resentment.

2.

To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor. (Obs.) "The judicious prelate will prefer a drop of the sincere milk of the word before vessels full of traditionary pottage resenting of the wild gourd of human invention."

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— The Prisoner • Alice Brown

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— A Campfire Girl's Happiness • Jane L. Stewart

... new cob stood hearkening with flickering ears to the various commotions of the street—she understood them all perfectly well, but her soul being unlifted by reason of oats, she chose to resent them as impertinences. Having tolerated with difficulty the instalment of Miss Fitzroy in the trap, she started with a flourish, and pulled hard until clear of the town and its flaring public-houses. On the open road, with ...

— All on the Irish Shore - Irish Sketches • E. Somerville and Martin Ross

... patel and his relatives, however, usually claim to have the skins of their own animals returned; and in some places where half the agriculturists of the village claim kinship with the patel, the Mahars feel and resent the loss. A third duty is the opening of grain-pits, the noxious gas from which sometimes produces asphyxia. For this the Mahars receive the tainted grain. They also get the clothes from a corpse which is laid on the pyre, and the pieces of the burnt wood which remain when the body has ...

— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV - Kumhar-Yemkala • R.V. Russell

... cover, and limped quickly out of the room—as though he were leaving a corpse. What he saw was the ghost of the Larger Good, mocking him through the veil of the past, and asking him such questions as only a man's soul may hear and not resent. ...

— A Certain Rich Man • William Allen White

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