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▪ I. reˈsenting, vbl. n. [f. resent v. + -ing1.] The action of the vb., in various senses.
1632J. L. Womens Rights 231 An elephant in whom..is..a wonderfull memorie and recenting of things past. 1635D. Person Varieties i. viii. 31 A perpetuall resenting of a good turn received. a1716South Serm. (1744) XI. 158 Despair..supposes..the resentings past, and the day of grace spent. ▪ II. reˈsenting, ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ing2.] That resents, in various senses of the vb.; that conveys or implies resentment; resentful.
1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. xxxv. (1674) 46 [He] in a resenting manner told Buonfadio, That..he had deserved to be treated as he had been. 1693Tate in Dryden's Juvenal xv. (1697) 375 Can Men, or more resenting Gods, invent, Or Hell inflict proportion'd Punishment..? 1695J. Sage Cyprianic Age Wks. 1847 II. 74 He wrote in a yet more resenting strain. 1709Addison Tatler No. 133 ⁋2 The Dignity and Disdain of a resenting Lover. 1761F. Sheridan Sidney Bidulph III. 125, I have no more ill in my heart than one of your children; but I am a little resenting may be. Hence reˈsentingly adv.
1611Florio, Risentitamento, resentingly, feelingly. 1668H. More Div. Dial. i. xiii. (1713) 28 Hylobares..does thus judiciously and resentingly recapitulate your main Reasonings. 1791C. Smith Celestina (ed. 2) II. 89 Montague..was piqued extremely, and would resentingly have answered. |