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).
4. 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. -- 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.
Res"er*ate (r?s"?r-?t), v. t. [L. reseratus, p. p. of reserare to
unlock.] To unlock; to open. [Obs.] Boyle.