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[rɪˈzɛnt], (Verb)
Definitions:
- feel bitterness or indignation at (a circumstance, action, or person)
(e.g: she resented the fact that I had children)
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Origin
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late 16th century: from obsolete French resentir, from re- (expressing intensive force) + sentir ‘feel’ (from Latin sentire). The early sense was ‘experience an emotion or sensation’, later ‘feel deeply’, giving rise to ‘feel aggrieved by’
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