different between resent vs respent

English

Etymology 1

From Middle French ressentir, resentir, from Old French resentir (Modern ressentir), from re- + sentir (“to feel”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?z?nt/, /???z?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Verb

resent (third-person singular simple present resents, present participle resenting, simple past and past participle resented)

1. (transitive) To feel resentment over; to consider as an affront.
2. (transitive) To express displeasure or indignation at.
   • 1743, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Remarks on the History of England

     The good prince King James […] bore dishonourably what he might have resented safely.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To be sensible of; to feel.
4. (transitive, obsolete) In a positive sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.

   • […] which makes the tragical ends of noble persons more favorably resented by compassionate readers.

5. (obsolete) To recognize; to perceive, especially as if by smelling; -- associated in meaning with sent, the older spelling of scent, to smell. See resent (intransitive verb).
   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Prophane State

     This bird of prey resented a worse than earthly savour in the soul of Saul.

   • 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre

     Our King Henrie the Seventh […] quickly resented his drift.

6. (obsolete) To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.

Translations

Etymology 2

See resend.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i??s?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Verb

resent

1. simple past tense and past participle of resend

   The package was resent, this time with the correct postage.

Further reading

• resent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• resent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Enters, Ernest, Senter, enters, entres, ernest, nester, renest, rentes, sterne, strene, tenser, treens

English

Verb

respent

1. simple past tense and past participle of respend

Anagrams

• Serpent, penster, present, repents, serpent