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Definition of Resentive
1. a. Resentful.
Definition of Resentive
1. Adjective. (rare) Resentful ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Resentive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Resentive
Literary usage of Resentive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Y Cymmrodor by Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (1877)
"PAKTS of speech are advantageously classified into Words, 1'resentive and Symbolical
... 1'resentive words are vocables which denote objective realities, ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of James Thomson by James Thomson, James Logie Robertson (1908)
"When instant from the keen resentive north, By long oppression by religion roused,
The guardian army came. Beneath its wing Was called, though meant to ..."
3. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1905)
"... nominate a group of rep- resentive members of the profession who would serve
as a Committee on Organization for the holding of an Engineering Congress ..."
4. A Treatise on Self Knowledge: Showing the Nature and Benefit of that by John Mason (1819)
"The least spark may break out into a conflagration, when cherished by a resentive
heat, and fanned by the wind of an angry breath. Aggravating * Ecc], vii. ..."
5. The Historical Collections of the Topsfield Historical Society by George Francis Dow (1899)
"... 1702/3 the Towen Choes willim faster Rep- resentive for the Towen of Boxford
this Sasion or Sa- sions also John Andrus is chosen moderator for the pros- ..."
6. The Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar for the Year of Our (1852)
"... and to every town or city having more than 5000 inhabitants, one additional
rep- resentive for every 5000 ; thus, three to 10000, four to 15000, &c., ..."
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