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resentment (n.)

"deep sense of injury, the excitement of passion which proceeds from a sense of wrong offered to one's self or one's kindred or friends," 1610s, from French ressentiment (16c.), verbal noun from ressentir (see resent).

"Ridicule often parries resentment, but resentment never yet parried ridicule." [Walter Savage Landor, "Imaginary Conversations"]

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Definitions of resentment from WordNet

resentment (n.)
a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will;
Synonyms: bitterness / gall / rancor / rancour
From wordnet.princeton.edu