4. In a bad sense, strong displeasure; anger; hostility provoked by a wrong or injury experienced. Resentment . . . is a deep, reflective displeasure against the conduct of the offender. Cogan.
Syn. — Anger; irritation; vexation; displeasure; grudge; indignation; choler; gall; ire; wrath; rage; fury. — Resentment, Anger. Anger is the broader term, denoting a keen sense of disapprobation (usually with a desire to punish) for watever we feel to be wrong, whether directed toward ourselves or others. Reseniment is anger exicted by a sense of personal injury. It is, etymologically, that reaction of the mind which we instinctively feel when we think ourselves wronged. Pride and selfishness are apt to aggravate this feeling until it changes into a criminal animosity; and this is now the more common signification of the term. Being founded in a sense of injury, this feeling is hard to be removed; and hence the expressions bitter or implacable resentment. See Anger. Anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self- mettle tires him. Shak. Can heavently minds such high resentment show, Or exercise their spite in human woe Dryden.
RESERATE Res"er*ate (rs"r-t), v. t. Etym: [L. reseratus, p. p. of reserare to unlock.]
Defn: To unlock; to open. [Obs.] Boyle.
RESERVANCE
Re*serv"ance (r-zrv"ans), n.
Defn: Reservation. [R.]
RESERVATION Res`er*va"tion (rz`r-v"shn), n. Etym: [Cf. F. réservation, LL. reservatio. See Reserve.]
1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. A. Smith. With reservation of an hundred knights. Shak. Make some reservation of your wrongs. Shak.
2. Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward. Dryden.
3. A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc. [U.S.]