单词 | resented |
释义 | resentedadj. Received or viewed with bitterness or grievance; felt as an injury or insult.In quot. 1664 with modifying word: received or viewed in the specified way. Cf. resent v. 6b. ΚΠ 1664 D. Lloyd Cabala 89 They..occasion some ill resented Proclamations upon these disorders. 1682 W. Gough Londinum Triumphans 293 The much resented Death of the Duke of Glocester. 1728 F. Hutcheson Ess. Passions i. vi. 189 It is very necessary..to force our Minds to examine the real Springs of the resented Actions. 1859 Economist 19 Mar. 308/2 A resented wrong or insult which in quieter times would have been endured in silence. 1906 Good Housek. Mar. 257/2 I wanted to see once more the faces I knew now I loved deeply, despite the resented past. 2011 B. T. Gericke David Petraeus xi. 76 A victorious invader quickly turns, in the eyes of the local population, into a resented occupier. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1664 |
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