resent

To feel resentment over; to consider as an affront.

The bride greatly resented being left at the church.

These books will fill, and well fill, certain stretches of life […] But in old or nervous or solemnest or dying hours, when one needs the impalpably soothing and vitalizing influences of abysmic Nature, or its affinities in literature or human society, and the soul resents the keenest mere intellection, they will not be sought for.

To express displeasure or indignation at.

Do you resent us for offering you that choice?

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

To be sensible of; to feel.

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.

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).

Perchance as vulturs are ſaid to ſmell the earthlineſſe of a dying corps; ſo this bird of prey reſented a worſe than earthly ſavour in the ſoul of Saul, an evidence of his death at hand.

But our King Henrie the ſeventh (being too good a ſenſer to miſtake a flouriſh for a blow) quickly reſented his drift (which was to perſwade our King to peace, till Charles ſhould perform his projects in little Britain and elſewhere) and dealt with him accordingly.