Word Finder - resented

definition

To feel resentment over; to consider as an affront.

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The bride greatly resented being left at the church.

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To express displeasure or indignation at.

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To be sensible of; to feel.

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In a positive sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.

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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).

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To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.

He'd never resented the Code before.

I resented our relationship, but I continued to nurture it.

She didn't want to live with someone like Logan, who resented her for something she couldn't control.

Haji Loja, the native leader, was supported by a body of Albanians and mutinous Turkish troops, while the whole Moslem population bitterly resented the proposed change.

The Free State strongly resented the British annexation of Basutoland, but after much negotiation the treaty of Aliwal North was concluded (1869) between the Free State and the high commissioner.

Servia had long resented the occupation of her fortresses by Turkish troops; frequent collisions arising from this source resulted in June 1862 in the bombardment of Belgrade; some slight concessions were then made to Servia, but it was not until 1867 that, through the mediation of England and other powers, she succeeded in obtaining the withdrawal of the Turkish garrisons.

The towns, in most cases creations of the rulers of Bohemia who had called in German immigrants, were, with the exception of the "new town" of Prague, mainly German; and in consequence of the regulations of the university, Germans also held almost all the more important ecclesiastical offices - a condition of things greatly resented by the natives of Bohemia, which at this period had reached a high degree of intellectual development.

By the end of the 15th century n he mountain had resumed much the same general aspect as it is resented before the eruption described by Pliny.

She'd always resented it, suspecting it held the information she needed to defeat the curse.

He upbraided the mother with her hardheartedness, and when she resented his interference he departed in a huff and they never met again.

Any attempt on the part of the Church to exercise discipline was resented as an intrusion.

Bonnet resented Lavater's action, but Mendelssohn was bound to reply, though opposed to religious controversy.

The first seat of the Holy Office was in the convent of San Pablo, where the friars, however, resented the orders, on the pretext that they were not delegates of the inquisitor-general.

Some of the clergy in country parishes were devoted workers, but special zeal was resented or discouraged.

The American people had sent food to the reconcentrados; President McKinley, while opposing recognition of the rebels, affirmed the possibility of intervention; Spain resented this attitude; and finally, in February 1898, the United States battleship " Maine " was blown up - by whom will probably never be known - in the harbour of Havana.

The nobles resented the king's withdrawal, and he was induced by Dunstan and Cynesige, bishop of Lichfield, to return to the feast.

The original King's chapel (1688, present building 1749-1754) was the first Episcopal church of Boston, which bitterly resented the action of the royal governor in 1687 in using the Old South for the services of the Church of England.

The appointment was resented by the Homoeusian clergy, and Meletius retired to Beroea.

Dalberg's subservience, as a prince of the Confederation, to Napoleon was specially resented since, as a priest, he had no excuse of necessity on the ground of saving family or dynastic interests; his fortunes therefore fell with those of Napoleon, and, when he died on the 10th of February 1817, of all his dignities he was in possession only of the archbishopric of Regensburg.

Muraviev, who already carried his nomination in his pocket, resented this condescension, and relegated Isvolsky to Belgrade and to Munich, where he had the rank of a minister plenipotentiary.

Edwy naturally resented this interference, and in 957 Dunstan was driven into exile.

The exchequer being drained by the payment of 10,000 pieces of gold to buy off the Gauls who had invaded their territories about 279 B.C., and by the imposition of an annual tribute which was ultimately raised to 80 talents, they were compelled to exact a toll on all the ships which passed the Bosporus - a measure which the Rhodians resented and avenged by a war, wherein the Byzantines were defeated.

No wonder she resented me.

I did.  But she never let me forget I was once a human.  She always resented my human weaknesses.

Obviously he resented having to go to dance school.

The Natalians were intensely British in sentiment, and resented deeply the policy adopted by the Gladstone administration.

The use of the title was resented by the emperor Henry IV.

I resented the hell out of it.

The royal Inquisition thus started was subversive of the regular tribunals of the bishops, who much resented the innovation, which, however, had the power of the state at its back.

This event created a deep impression in Ireland, where O'Neill's submission to the English king, and his acceptance of an English title, were resented by his clansmen and dependents.

Not only had the friars great difficulty in supporting themselves, but they dreaded an outbreak from the fanatical Turks who resented some imprudent manifestations of Loyola's zeal.

The Boers, however, strongly resented the contention of the British that they could not shake off British nationality though beyond the bounds of any recognized British possession, nor were they prepared to see their only port garrisoned by British troops, and they rejected Napier's overtures.

And even the proposal to apply the unaided reason to solve questions which had divided the fathers must have been resented by the more rigid churchmen as the rash intrusion of an over-confident Rationalism.

Croats, Vlachs, Serbs and Slovaks resented Magyar domination - a domination which had been carefully secured under the revolutionary constitution by a very narrow franchise, and out of the general chaos each race hoped to create for itself a separate national existence.

This action was unconstitutional, and was bitterly resented by the vice-president Solar, who by right should have succeeded to the office.

Stephen's pretensions to authority as "bishop of bishops" were sharply resented, and for some time the relations of the Roman and African Churches were severely strained.

The people were ardent Catholics, who venerated the nonjuring clergy and resented the measures taken against them.

All who rejected his ideal were corrupt; all who resented his ascendancy were traitors.

They laughed at his religion, resented his puritanism, and felt themselves in daily peril.

Then all the parties which resented the limit upon freedom of election combined to rise in Paris.

The treatment of the duke of Parma by the Directory was keenly resented by the queen.

But Bonaparte resented this show of independence, and compelled Charles IV.

It was resented by the Liberals and provoked a military rising, headed by the mosi popular of the Cristino generals, Baldomero Espartero.

Marshal Campos was not allowed to carry out his liberal and conciliatory policy, which the reactionary party in the colony, ci partido espanol, resented as much as their allies in the Peninsula.

The French people resented the act, and the Madrid government was sorely embarrassed, as the king had announced his intention of visiting Paris on his way back from Germany.

The marriage of his widow Josephine to Napoleon Bonaparte in March 1796 was at first resented by Eugene and his sister Hortense; but their step-father proved to be no less kind than watchful over their interests.

Sometimes Kris hated being his father.s son and resented Andre.s insistence that he choose duty over all else.

Always a lover of dogs, Bennett could do anything with them; no dog, however fierce, resented his approach.

This was resented as a base calumny by Mu'awiya.

There is little doubt that M R James would have resented the imposition of such subtle themes.