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That which provokes, or excites anger; the cause of resentment; as, to give provocation. Paley.

Having the power or quality of exciting resentment; tending to awaken passion or vexation; as, provoking words or treatment. -- Pro*vok"ing*ly, adv.

Swift. -- To put up with. (a) To overlook, or suffer without recompense, punishment, or resentment; as, to put up with an injury or affront.

To feel resentment. Swift.

Resentment. [Obs.]

With a sense of wrong or affront; with resentment.

To disturb, as the temper; to ruffle the temper of; to rouse the passion of resentment in; to perplex. That his friends should believe it, was what roiled him [Judge Jeffreys] exceedingly. R. North.

. [R.] I ruffled up falen leaves in heap. Chapman To ruffle the feathers of, to exite the resentment of; to irritate.

To snort. [Obs.] "Resentment expressed by snifting." Johnson.

Resentment, displeasure, or contempt, expressed by a snuffing of the nose. [Obs.] Snuff dipping. See Dipping, n., 5. -- Snuff taker, one who uses snuff by inhaling it through the nose. -- To take it in snuff, to be angry or offended. Shak. -- Up to snuff, not likely to be imposed upon; knowing; acute. [Slang]…

Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness. [Obs.] Stern was his look, and full of stomach vain. Spenser. This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent. Locke.

Resentment. [Obs.]

To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to; to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will take an affront from no man.

mischief. Spies and talebearers, encouraged by her father, did their best to inflame her resentment. Macaulay.

le; not very excellent or pleasing, but such as can be borne or received without disgust, resentment, or opposition; passable; as, a tolerable administration; a tolerable entertainment; a tolerable translation. Dryden. -- Tol"er*a*ble*ness, n. -- Tol"er*a*bly, adv.

Deniable; specifically (Law), liable to legal objection; as, a traversable presentment. Sir M. Hale.

another, as standing in one's light or way; hence, suspicion of injury or wrong; offense; resentment. Which gave umbrage to wiser than myself. Evelyn. Persons who feel most umbrage from the overshadowing aristocracy. Sir W. Scott.

wledge, or other qualities that are abreast of the times. "A general up-to-date style of presentment." Nature.

eserve the vert and venison, keep the assizes, view, receive, and enroll attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses. Blackstone.

Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment. [Obs.] Shak. Spenser.