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Grudge v. t. (past & past part. grudger; pres. part. grudging)

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." "I have often heard the Presbyterians say, they did not grudge us our employments." "They have grudged us contribution."

To hold or harbor with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously. (Obs.) "Perish they That grudge one thought against your majesty!"

Grudge v. i.

To be covetous or envious; to show discontent; to murmur; to complain; to repine; to be unwilling or reluctant. "Grudge not one against another." "He eats his meat without grudging."

To feel compunction or grief. (Obs.)

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"Grudging" Quotes from Famous Books

... mind itself, since such a task is not easy to those not experienced; these I revive in my commentaries. Some things I purposely omit, in the exercise of a wise selection, afraid to write what I guarded against speaking; not grudging—for that were wrong—but fearing for my readers, lest they should stumble by taking them in a wrong sense; and, as the proverb says, we should be found 'reaching a sword to a child.' For it is impossible that what has been written ...

— Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries • Annie Besant

... unwilling enough," Ashley agreed, in a grudging voice, "and the cup lags, undoubtedly, but there'll be no slip; old Gordon will force the lips, and old Gordon holds the handle of the cup. Mistress Barbara is but wax in her father's hands, and as for Farquhart—well, unless ...

— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various

... for the enlightening and felicitating of this dark and wretched world, four or forty, sixty or a hundred, volumes of the Word of Life. And when, aside from all the distorting and hardening influences exerted on our own moral natures by a grudging refusal to meet the calls of benevolence, we consider the civil and social melioration which has attended the pathway of this heavenly light, together with its refining and sanctifying influences of the individual soul; when we stretch our thoughts into the eternal world, and ...

— The Faithful Steward - Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character • Sereno D. Clark

... to set down all he poured out to me in this beggarly vein, or the very short and grudging answers that I made to him. There were times when I was tempted to stop his mouth with some small change; but whether it was from shame or pride—whether it was for my own sake or Catriona's—whether it was because I thought him no fit father for ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... again asleep, and they had left her and gone into the front-room; as much to speak together without disturbing her as to get their own suppers. They were doing this last, however, in a grudging sort of fashion; for the pleasures of the table are no match for a heartache. Gwen found it a solace to make her own toast with a long toasting-fork, an experience which her career as an Earl's daughter ...

— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan

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