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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GRUDGE', v.t. [L. rugio.]
1. To be discontented at another's enjoyments or advantages; to envy one the possession or happiness which we desire for ourselves.
'Tis not in thee
To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train.
I have often heard the presbyterians say, they did not grudge us our employments.
It is followed by two objects, but probably by ellipsis; as, grudge us for grudge to us.
2. To give or take unwillingly.
Nor grudge my cold embraces in the grave.
They have grudged those contributions, which have set our country at the head of all the governments of Europe.
GRUDGE, v.i. To murmur; to repine; to complain; as, to grudge or complain of injustice.
1. To be unwilling or reluctant. Not to serve your country.
2. To be envious.
Grudge not one against another. James 5.
3. To wish in secret. [Not used nor proper.]
4. To feel compunction; to grieve. [Not in use.]
GRUDGE, n. Sullen malice or malevolence; ill will; secret enmity; hatred; as an old grudge.
1. Unwillingness to benefit.
2. Remorse of conscience.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation; "holding a grudge"; "settling a score" [syn: grudge, score, grievance] v
1: bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings [syn: stew, grudge]
2: accept or admit unwillingly

Merriam Webster's

I. transitive verb (grudged; grudging) Etymology: Middle English grucchen, grudgen to grumble, complain, from Anglo-French grucer, grucher, of Germanic origin; akin to Middle High German grogezen to howl Date: 14th century to be unwilling to give or admit ; give or allow reluctantly or resentfully <didn't grudge the time> • grudger noun II. noun Date: 15th century a feeling of deep-seated resentment or ill will Synonyms: see malice

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. a persistent feeling of ill will or resentment, esp. one due to an insult or injury (bears a grudge against me). --v.tr. 1 be resentfully unwilling to give, grant, or allow (a thing). 2 (foll. by verbal noun or to + infin.) be reluctant to do (a thing) (grudged paying so much). Derivatives: grudger n. Etymology: ME grutch f. OF grouchier murmur, of unkn. orig.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Grudge Grudge, n. 1. Sullen malice or malevolence; cherished malice, enmity, or dislike; ill will; an old cause of hatred or quarrel. Esau had conceived a mortal grudge and eumity against hie brother Jacob. --South. The feeling may not be envy; it may not be imbittered by a grudge. --I. Taylor. 2. Slight symptom of disease. [Obs.] Our shaken monarchy, that now lies . . . struggling againat the grudges of more dreaded calamities. --Milton. Syn: Pique; aversion; dislike; ill will; hatred; spite. See Pique.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Grudge Grudge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grudger; p. pr. & vb. n. Grudging.] [OE. grutchen, gruchen, grochen, to murmur, grumble, OF. grochier, grouchier, grocier, groucier; cf. Icel. krytja to murmur, krutr a murmur, or E. grunt.] 1. To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy (one) the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to get back again; -- followed by the direct object only, or by both the direct and indirect objects. Tis not in thee To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train. --Shak. I have often heard the Presbyterians say, they did not grudge us our employments. --Swift. They have grudged us contribution. --Shak. 2. To hold or harbor with malicioua disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously. [Obs.] Perish they That grudge one thought against your majesty ! --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Grudge Grudge, v. i. 1. To be covetous or envious; to show discontent; to murmur; to complain; to repine; to be unwilling or reluctant. Grudge not one against another. --James v. 9. He eats his meat without grudging. --Shak. 2. To feel compunction or grief. [Obs.] --Bp. Fisher.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(grudges) If you have or bear a grudge against someone, you have unfriendly feelings towards them because of something they did in the past. He appears to have a grudge against certain players... There is no doubt it was an accident and I bear no grudges. N-COUNT: oft N against n

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

gruj (naTar; stenazo, goggusmos): "Grudge" (perhaps a mimetic word, compare Greek gru) is "to grumble" or "murmur" at any person or thing, to entertain an envious or covetous feeling, to do or give anything unwillingly, etc. It occurs in the King James Version as the translation of naTar, "to keep (anger)" (Le 19:18, "Thou shalt not .... bear any grudge against the children of thy people"); in Ps 59:15, as the translation, in text, of Hebrew lun or lin, "to pass the night," "to tarry," Niphal, "to show oneself obstinate," "to murmur or complain" (of the enemies who were hunting David like dogs), "Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied," margin "If they be not satisfied then will they stay all night," the Revised Version (British and American) "And tarry all night if they be not satisfied"; but see Ex 15:24; 16:2; Nu 14:2; Jos 9:18, etc., where the translation is "murmur"; may not the meaning be "and growl (or howl) if they be not satisfied"? "Grudge" formerly implied open expression of discontent, etc., e.g. Wyclif has in Lu 15:2, "The farisies and scribis grucchiden seiynge," etc.

In Jas 5:9, stenazo, "to groan," "to complain" (from affliction or from impatience or ill-humor), is translated "grudge," "Grudge not one against another, brethren," the Revised Version (British and American) "murmur not"; goggusmos, "a murmuring" (compare Joh 7:12 f; Ac 6:1), is rendered "grudging" (1Pe 4:9), "Use hospitality one to another without grudging," the Revised Version (British and American) "murmuring"; compare Php 2:14; me ek lupes, "not out of grief," is "without grudging" (2Co 9:7, the Revised Version (British and American) "not grudging" margin, Greek "of sorrow"); in Ecclesiasticus 10:25 we have "will not grudge" (gogguzo), the Revised Version (British and American) "murmur."

"Grudge" was frequent in the earlier VSS, but is changed in the King James Version for the most part into "murmur"; the Revised Version (British and American) completes the change, except Le 19:18, and text of 2Co 9:7.

W. L. Walker

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Grant with reluctance, give unwillingly. 2. Envy, begrudge, repine at, see with discontent. II. v. a. 1. Be reluctant, be unwilling. 2. Repine, murmur, grieve, complain. 3. Be envious, feel envy, cherish ill-will. III. n. Hatred (secretly and persistently entertained), pique, spite, malice, rancor, malevolence, ill-will, inveterate dislike, sullen malice, secret hate, concealed enmity.

Moby Thesaurus

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