unresentedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnrᵻˈzɛntᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənrəˈzɛn(t)əd/ Not resented.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > forgiveness > [adjective] > forgiven
pardoned1547
forgiven1548
remitted1580
unresented1681
1681 J. Lloyd Solomon's Song Paraphras'd ii. 8 Our Vine has tender branches; O forbear, Lest Herods cruelty should harbour here, And Rachel shed an unresented tear.
1705 J. Vanbrugh Mistake iii. i You must not think so daring an affront to my family can go long unresented.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 99. ¶7 One may tell another he..Drinks, Blasphemes, and it may pass unresented.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. ix. 47 It is still a worse imputation, that she should pass over so mortal an injury unresented.
1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude I. xiv. 239 He had suffered to pass, unnoticed and unresented, her former ill-humor.
1886 A. Weir Hist. Basis Mod. Europe iii. 115 To suffer unresented the contemptuous demeanour of his unprofitable superiors.
1948 K. O'Donnell Hoover Makers of Opera viii. 63 The unresented triumphs of his [sc. Leopold Mozart's] son's childhood were over, and the persistent rancor aroused by his genius was thenceforth to overshadow his career.
2002 D. Hawkins Informed Vision 178 As always happens when there is an institutional hierarchy, a pecking order, those seen as pecking first do not go unresented.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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