Grudge vs Rankle - What's the difference?
grudge | rankle |
(countable) Deep-seated animosity or ill-feeling about something or someone.
* 1607 , Barnabe Barnes, THE DIVILS CHARTER: A TRAGÆDIE Conteining the Life and Death of Pope Alexander the ?ixt , ACTVS. 5, SCÆ. 1:
* 1879 , Henry James, The American , Rinehart, page 288:
* 2001 , H. Rider Haggard, All Adventure: Child of Storm/a Tale of Three Lions , Essential Library (xLibris), page 274:
(obsolete) To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke XV:
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:
* 1841 , Edmund Burke, The Annual Register , Rivingtons, page 430:
* 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]:
* , Episode 12, The Cyclops
* 1953 , , Viking Press, 1953, chapter 3:
(obsolete) To hold or harbour with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To feel compunction or grief.
(intransitive) To cause irritation or deep bitterness.
To fester.
* Rowe
* Burke
Inward corruption and infected sin,
Not purg'd nor heald, behind remained still,
And festring sore did rankle yet within, * 1850 — , chapter XIV *: You are beside him, sleeping and waking. You search his thoughts. You burrow and rankle in his heart! * 1890 — , chapter IX *: The close proximity of the two countries, the relative positions of their ports, made the naval situation particularly strong; and the alliance which was dictated by sound policy, by family ties, and by just fear of England's sea power, was further assured to France by recent and still existing injuries that must continue to rankle with Spain. Gibraltar, Minorca, and Florida were still in the hands of England; no Spaniard could be easy till this reproach was wiped out.
As verbs the difference between grudge and rankle
is that grudge is (obsolete) to grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied while rankle is (intransitive) to cause irritation or deep bitterness.As a noun grudge
is (countable) deep-seated animosity or ill-feeling about something or someone.grudge
English
Noun
(en noun)- to hold a grudge against someone
- to have a grudge against someone
- to bear a grudge against someone
- 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
- 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.
- 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 grudgeVerb
(grudg)- And the pharises, and scribes grudged sainge: He receaveth to his company synners [...].
- 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 :
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- I've never seen such people for borrowing and lending; there was dough changing hands in all directions, and nobody grudged anyone.
- Perish they / That grudge one thought against your majesty!
- (Bishop Fisher)
Derived terms
* grudginglyReferences
Anagrams
*rankle
English
Verb
(rankl)- a splinter rankles in the flesh
- a malady that burns and rankles inward
- This would have left a rankling wound in the hearts of the people.
Quotations
* 1590 — , Book I, Canto X *: But yet the cause and root of all his ill,Inward corruption and infected sin,
Not purg'd nor heald, behind remained still,
And festring sore did rankle yet within, * 1850 — , chapter XIV *: You are beside him, sleeping and waking. You search his thoughts. You burrow and rankle in his heart! * 1890 — , chapter IX *: The close proximity of the two countries, the relative positions of their ports, made the naval situation particularly strong; and the alliance which was dictated by sound policy, by family ties, and by just fear of England's sea power, was further assured to France by recent and still existing injuries that must continue to rankle with Spain. Gibraltar, Minorca, and Florida were still in the hands of England; no Spaniard could be easy till this reproach was wiped out.