resentiment

From French ressentiment, from an archaic usage of the verb ressentir, via Old French sentir from Latin sentiō, sentīre (“to feel”). Doublet of resentment and ressentiment.

• enPR: rĭ-zĕnʹtē-mənt, IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzɛn.ti.mənt/
• Hyphenation: re‧sen‧ti‧ment

resentiment (plural resentiments)

1. Feeling or sense of anything; the state of being deeply affected by anything.
2. Obsolete form of resentment.

• “resentiment”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “resentiment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “resentiment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “resentiment; resentment”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volume IV, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 5100, column 2.

Borrowed from French ressentiment, from an archaic usage of the verb ressentir, via Old French sentir from Latin sentiō, sentīre (“to feel”).

resentiment n (plural resentimente)

1. resentment (anger or displeasure felt out of belief that others have engaged in wrongdoing or mistreatment; indignation.)