resent

verb

1. (transitive)To feel resentment over; to consider as an affront.

   “The bride greatly resented being left at the church.”

   “These books will fill, and well fill, certain stretches of life […] But in old or nervous or solemnest or dying hours, when one needs the impalpably soothing and vitalizing influences of abysmic Nature, or its affinities in literature or human society, and the soul resents the keenest mere intellection, they will not be sought for.”

   “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,[…].”

   “[…] of all the sections of a ship's company, the forecastlemen, veterans for the most part and bigoted in their sea-prejudices, are the most jealous in resenting territorial encroachments […]”

   “so that they resent recent Kartvelian encroachment on their land, which has been accompanied by repeated attempts to Georgianize them.”

2. (transitive)To express displeasure or indignation at.

   “Do you resent us for offering you that choice?”

   “The good prince King James […] bore dishonourably what he might have resented safely.”

3. (obsolete, transitive)To be sensible of; to feel.
4. (obsolete, transitive)In a positive sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.

   “[…] which makes the tragical ends of noble persons more favorably resented by compassionate readers.”

5. (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).

   “Perchance as vulturs are ſaid to ſmell the earthlineſſe of a dying corps; ſo this bird of prey reſented a worſe than earthly ſavour in the ſoul of Saul, an evidence of his death at hand.”

   “But our King Henrie the ſeventh (being too good a ſenſer to miſtake a flouriſh for a blow) quickly reſented his drift (which was to perſwade our King to peace, till Charles ſhould perform his projects in little Britain and elſewhere) and dealt with him accordingly.”

6. (obsolete)To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.
7. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of resend

   “The package was resent, this time with the correct postage.”