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Grudge vs Jealous - What's the difference?

grudge | jealous |

As a noun grudge

is (countable) deep-seated animosity or ill-feeling about something or someone.

As a verb grudge

is (obsolete) to grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied.

As an adjective jealous is

suspecting rivalry in love; troubled by worries that one might have been replaced in someone's affections; suspicious of a lover or spouse's fidelity.

grudge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (countable) Deep-seated animosity or ill-feeling about something or someone.
  • to hold a grudge against someone
    to have a grudge against someone
    to bear a grudge against someone
  • * 1607 , Barnabe Barnes, THE DIVILS CHARTER: A TRAGÆDIE Conteining the Life and Death of Pope Alexander the ?ixt , ACTVS. 5, SCÆ. 1:
  • Bag. And if I do not my good Lord damme me for it
    I haue an old grudge at him cole black curre,
    He ?hall haue two ?teele bullets ?trongly charg’d
  • * 1879 , Henry James, The American , Rinehart, page 288:
  • I have never mentioned it to a human creature ; I have kept my grudge' to myself. I daresay I have been wicked, but my ' grudge has grown old with me.
  • * 2001 , H. Rider Haggard, All Adventure: Child of Storm/a Tale of Three Lions , Essential Library (xLibris), page 274:
  • It is towards Saduko that he bears a grudge , for you know, my father, one should never pull a drowning man out of the stream — which is what Saduko did, for had it not been for his treachery, Cetewayo would have sunk beneath the water of Death — especially if it is only to spite a woman who hates him.

    Derived terms

    * hold a grudge * have a grudge * bear a grudge

    Verb

    (grudg)
  • (obsolete) To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke XV:
  • And the pharises, and scribes grudged sainge: He receaveth to his company synners [...].
  • To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something).
  • * 1608 , Henrie Gosson, The Woefull and Lamentable wast and spoile done by a suddaine Fire in S. Edmonds-bury in Suffolke, on Munday the tenth of Aprill. 1608. , reprinted by F. Pawsey, Old Butter Market, Ipswich, 1845, page 6:
  • Wee shall finde our whole life so necessarily ioyned with sorrow, that we ought rather delight (and take pleasure) in Gods louing chastisements, and admonitions, then any way murmure and grudge at our crosses, or tribulations :
  • * 1841 , Edmund Burke, The Annual Register , Rivingtons, page 430:
  • If we of the central land were to grudge you what is beneficial, and not to compassionate your wants, then wherewithal could you foreigners manage to exist?
  • * 1869 , Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment , Fields, Osgood, & Co., p. 62 [http://books.google.com/books?id=dk8IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA62#v=onepage&f=false]:
  • Of course, his interest in the war and in the regiment was unbounded; he did not take to drill with especial readiness, but he was insatiable of it, and grudged every moment of relaxation.
  • * , Episode 12, The Cyclops
  • Our two inimitable drolls did a roaring trade with their broadsheets among lovers of the comedy element and nobody who has a corner in his heart for real Irish fun without vulgarity will grudge them their hardearned pennies.
  • * 1953 , , Viking Press, 1953, chapter 3:
  • I've never seen such people for borrowing and lending; there was dough changing hands in all directions, and nobody grudged anyone.
  • (obsolete) To hold or harbour with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Perish they / That grudge one thought against your majesty!
  • (obsolete) To feel compunction or grief.
  • (Bishop Fisher)

    Derived terms

    * grudgingly

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    jealous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Suspecting rivalry in love; troubled by worries that one might have been replaced in someone's affections; suspicious of a lover or spouse's fidelity.
  • Protective, zealously guarding, careful in the protection of something one has or appreciates.
  • For you must not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. —Exodus 34:14 (NET)
  • Envious; feeling resentful of someone for a perceived advantage, material or otherwise.
  • * 1891 , Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.
  • * 1899 , Mark Twain, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
  • The neighbouring towns were jealous of this honourable supremacy.
  • Suspecting, suspicious.
  • * 1823 , Walter Scott, Quentin Durward
  • At length [...] the Duke demanded to know of Durward who his guide was, [...] and wherefore he had been led to entertain suspicion of him. To the first of these questions Quentin Durward answered by naming Hayraddin Maugrabin, the Bohemian; [...] and in reply to the third point he mentioned what had happened in the Franciscan convent near Namur, how the Bohemian had been expelled from the holy house, and how, jealous of his behaviour, he had dogged him to a rendezvous with one of William de la Marck's lanzknechts, where he overheard them arrange a plan for surprising the ladies who were under his protection.

    Usage notes

    Some usage guides seek to distinguish "jealous" from “envious”, using jealous' to mean “protective of one’s ''own'' position or possessions” – one “jealously ''guards'' what one has” – and ''envious'' to mean “desirous of ''others’'' position or possessions” – one “''envies'' what others have”. Envious/Jealous]”, Paul Brians, ''[http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/book.html Common Errors in English Usage]'' This distinction is also maintained in the psychological and philosophical literature.See [http://plato.stanford.edu/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy], [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/envy/ Envy], [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/envy/
  • 1.2 1.2 Envy vs. Jealousy However, this distinction is not reflected in usage, as reflected in the quotations of famous authors (above) using the word ' jealous in the sense “envious (of the possessions of others)”.
  • Derived terms

    * jealously adverb * jealousy noun * jealousness noun

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