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Resentment vs Grudge - What's the difference?

resentment | grudge |

In obsolete terms the difference between resentment and grudge

is that resentment is satisfaction; gratitude while grudge is to feel compunction or grief.

As nouns the difference between resentment and grudge

is that resentment is a feeling of anger or displeasure stemming from belief that one has been wronged by others or betrayed; indignation while grudge is deep-seated animosity or ill-feeling about something or someone.

As a verb grudge is

to grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied.

resentment

English

Noun

  • A feeling of anger or displeasure stemming from belief that one has been wronged by others or betrayed; indignation.
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  • * 1812 ,
    • Amongst the most violent against him was Mrs. Bennet, whose dislike of his general behaviour was sharpened into particular resentment by his having slighted one of her daughters.
  • (obsolete) The state of holding something in the mind as a subject of contemplation, or of being inclined to reflect upon it; feeling; impression.
  • * Dr. H. More
    • He retains vivid resentments of the more solid morality.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • It is a greater wonder that so many of them die, with so little resentment of their danger.
  • (obsolete) satisfaction; gratitude
  • * 1651 , The Council Book
    • The Council taking notice of the many good services performed by Mr. John Milton have thought fit to declare their resentment and good acceptance of the same.

    See also

    * dudgeon * umbrage

    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

    Related terms

    * grudge match

    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)

    Related terms

    * begrudge * grudgery

    Derived terms

    * grudgingly

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