resent

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to feel angry or bitter about something you think is unfair

   She resented being treated like a child by her older brother.

2. 2
   verb

   to feel ill will toward someone for something they have done

   Many workers resented the manager for cutting their hours.

Simplified etymology

Resent came into English in the late 16th century from obsolete French resentir, formed from the intensifying prefix re- and sentir, “feel,” from Latin sentire. It first meant to experience an emotion or sensation, then to feel something deeply, positively or negatively. The specifically negative sense “feel aggrieved by,” recorded from the early 17th century, eventually displaced the others.

From Middle French ressentir, resentir, from Old French resentir (Modern ressentir), from re- + sentir (“to feel”).

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