![]() ![]() There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. We are causing more resentment towards our wildlife and towards conservation as a whole than we are doing any good.Īny act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free. ![]() We have to get feet on the ground with guns, unfortunately, the feet on the ground with a gun that kills a poacher is the wrong way forward. Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself. This can ultimately become destructive as the husband, who may feel neglected and have feelings of resentment because his needs are not being met because he’s not identifying concerns. Anger toward the offender exaggerates the offense. Compare ACRIMONY ENMITY HATRED.Īnger, animosity, choler, displeasure, exasperation, fretfulness, fury, impatience, indignation, ire, irritation, offense, passion, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, rage, temper, vexation, wrathĪmiability, charity, forbearance, gentleness, leniency, lenity, long-suffering, love, mildness, patience, peace, peaceableness, peacefulness, self-control, self-restraintĪnger at the insult prompted the reply. Fretfulness, pettishness, and peevishness are chronic states finding in any petty matter an occasion for their exercise. Irritation, petulance, and vexation are temporary and for immediate cause. Impatience, fretfulness, irritation, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, and vexation express the slighter forms of anger. Wrath is deep and perhaps vengeful displeasure, as when the people of Nazareth were "filled with wrath" at the plain words of Jesus ( Luke iv, 28) it may, however, simply express the culmination of righteous indignation without malice in a pure being as, the wrath of God. ![]() Anger is commonly a sin indignation is often a duty. Pure indignation is not followed by regret, and needs no repentance it is also more self-controlled than anger. Indignation is impersonal and unselfish displeasure at unworthy acts (Latin indigna), i. Anger is personal and usually selfish, aroused by real or supposed wrong to oneself, and directed specifically and intensely against the person who is viewed as blameworthy. Rage drives one beyond the bounds of prudence or discretion fury is stronger yet, and sweeps one away into uncontrollable violence. Exasperation, a roughening, is a hot, superficial intensity of anger, demanding instant expression. Resentment (a feeling back or feeling over again) is persistent, the bitter brooding over injuries. Anger is violent and vindictive emotion, which is sharp, sudden, and, like all violent passions, necessarily brief. Passion, tho a word of far wider application, may, in the singular, be employed to denote anger "did put me in a towering passion," Shakespeare Hamlet act v, sc. Temper used alone in the sense of anger is colloquial, tho we may correctly say a hot temper, a fiery temper, etc. Choler and ire, now rare except in poetic or highly rhetorical language, denote a still, and the latter a persistent, anger. Displeasure is the mildest and most general word. ![]()
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