Crossword clues for resentment
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Resentment \Re*sent"ment\ (-ment), n. [F. ressentiment.]
The act of resenting.
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The state of holding something in the mind as a subject of contemplation, or of being inclined to reflect upon something; a state of consciousness; conviction; feeling; impression. [Obs.]
He retains vivid resentments of the more solid morality.
--Dr. H. More.It is a greater wonder that so many of them die, with so little resentment of their danger.
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In a good sense, satisfaction; gratitude. [Obs.]
The Council taking notice of the many good services performed by Mr. John Milton, . . . have thought fit to declare their resentment and good acceptance of the same.
--The Council Book (1651). -
In a bad sense, strong displeasure; anger; hostility provoked by a wrong or injury experienced.
Resentment . . . is a deep, reflective displeasure against the conduct of the offender.
--Cogan.Syn: Anger; irritation; vexation; displeasure; grudge; indignation; choler; gall; ire; wrath; rage; fury.
Usage: Resentment, Anger. Anger is the broader term, denoting a keen sense of disapprobation (usually with a desire to punish) for whatever we feel to be wrong, whether directed toward ourselves or others. Resentment is anger exicted by a sense of personal injury. It is, etymologically, that reaction of the mind which we instinctively feel when we think ourselves wronged. Pride and selfishness are apt to aggravate this feeling until it changes into a criminal animosity; and this is now the more common signification of the term. Being founded in a sense of injury, this feeling is hard to be removed; and hence the expressions bitter or implacable resentment. See Anger.
Anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self-mettle tires him.
--Shak.Can heavently minds such high resentment show, Or exercise their spite in human woe?
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from French ressentiment (16c.), verbal noun from ressentir (see resent).\n\n"Ridicule often parries resentment, but resentment never yet parried ridicule."
[Walter Savage Landor, "Imaginary Conversations"]
Wiktionary
n. A feeling of anger or displeasure stemming from belief that one has been wronged by others or betrayed; indignation.
WordNet
n. a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will [syn: bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour]
Wikipedia
Resentment (also called ranklement or bitterness), not classified among Paul Ekman's six basic emotions of surprise, disgust, happiness, sadness, anger, and fear, is the foundation of hatred. Resentment comprises the three basic emotions of disgust, sadness and surprise -the perception of injustice. Resentment is a mixture of disappointment, anger, and fear. As the surprise of injustice becomes less frequent, so too does anger and fear fade -leaving disappointment as the predominant emotion. So, to the extent perceived disgust and sadness remain, so too does the level of disappointment remain.
The word originates from French "ressentir", re-, intensive prefix, and sentir "to feel"; from the Latin "sentire". The English word has become synonymous with anger and spite.
Robert C. Solomon, a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, places resentment on the same continuum as anger and contempt, and he argues that the differences between the three are that resentment is anger directed toward a higher- status individual; anger is directed toward an equal-status individual; and contempt is anger directed toward a lower-status individual.
Resentment can be triggered by an emotionally disturbing experience felt again or relived in the mind. When the person feeling resentment is directing the emotion at himself or herself, it appears as remorse.
"Resentment" is a song written by Walter W. Millsap III, Candice Nelson and Curtis Mayfield and originally performed by Victoria Beckham. It is an emotive ballad whose lyrics detail a situation where a woman feels hurt and anger that her man lied and cheated on her. "Resentment" along with several other songs were meant to be on Beckham's third solo-album, Come Together, which was later shelved, leading the song to be included on the documentary DVD titled The Real Beckhams (2004). American recording artist Jazmine Sullivan had re-recorded the song in 2005 for her unreleased original debut Break My Little Heart. Beyoncé's version of the song was included on her second studio album B'Day (2006) and featured additional lyrics composed by the singer herself.
Usage examples of "resentment".
The philosopher, who considered the system of polytheism as a composition of human fraud and error, could disguise a smile of contempt under the mask of devotion, without apprehending that either the mockery, or the compliance, would expose him to the resentment of any invisible, or, as he conceived them, imaginary powers.
An autumnal love gives a man the sober splendor and gentle warmth of a September sunset, but it does not buffet him with the springtime storms of resentment or jealousy.
Pitch mentioned their intended length of stay upon Azul Island, Tom laughed harder than before, and his chair creaked as though in resentment of the heavy pounds of flesh and bone that made up this man.
When he continued, his face had reddened and his voice shook with a bellicose resentment.
In fact, however, it may be confided to the reader that Bernard was pricked in a tender place, though the resentment of vanity was not visible in his answer.
Sharp sent for Burnet, and dismissed his advice without apparent resentment.
The latter obeyed, and, opening the door of the chamber, they passed into the anti-room, where the Baron, surprised to find all his pages asleep, stopped, and, with hasty violence, was going to reprimand them for their carelessness, when the Knight waved his hand, and looked so expressively upon the Baron, that the latter restrained his resentment, and passed on.
A moment later, Zorzi included all marriageable young women in one sweeping condemnation: they were all hard-hearted, mercenary, vain, deceitful--anything that suggested itself to his headlong resentment.
I remembered the resentment both of and by metics and foreigners at the tavern.
American traditions of defeat and their link to paranoia and aggression, we must note the strong element of class resentment in the whole millenarian tradition.
His expression was as simple as resentment without understanding can be: now like plesiosaurus laboring all four limbs for the paddles they were, lifting a small head to see pterodactyl raise its absurd body on more absurd wings and with cumbrous scaling gain the sky, a ridiculous place to be, certainly, but for that moment he watched, disconcerting to plesiosaurus, to whom no such extravagance had ever occurred and who, by no feat of skill or imagination, could hope to accomplish it now.
True, the shock and surprise of the thing had momentarily swept him off his feet, but why had he, in foolish reckless resentment against unjust circumstances, rushed off instead to the cabin of Kayak Bill and taken glass after glass of the stuff that had put him in such a state of oblivion that he was unable to take any part in the Potlatch festivities?
His lordship distinguished with great propriety and precision, between a step which had been precipitately taken in a violent crisis, when the public was heated with apprehension and resentment, and a solemn law concerted at leisure, during the most profound tranquility.
Rome, proclaimed his immortal resentment against the assassins of his beloved master.
Notwithstanding the cruel disposition of Maximin, the effects of his resentment against the Christians were of a very local and temporary nature, and the pious Origen, who had been proscribed as a devoted victim, was still reserved to convey the truths of the gospel to the ear of monarchs.