† reˈsentive, a. Obs.
[f. resent v. + -ive.]
Apt or inclined to resent, in various senses.
| 1662 H. Stubbe Ind. Nectar Pref. 5 Those returns, that the..Prince may exspect from an ingenuous and resentive Servant. 1709 Mrs. Manley Secret Mem. (1720) III. 183 She had so totally subverted..the resentive faculty in him, that [etc.]. 1735 Thomson Liberty iv. 1016 From the keen resentive North,..The Guardian Army came. |