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Webster 1828 Edition
Grudging
GRUDG'ING
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GRUDG'ING
,Noun.
1.
Reluctance; also, a secret wish or desire. He had a grudging still to be a knave.
2.
A symptom of disease. [Not in use.]Definition 2025
grudging
grudging
English
Adjective
grudging (comparative more grudging, superlative most grudging)
- Unwilling or with reluctance.
- her grudging acceptance that her rival deserved the award
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Translations
unwilling or with reluctance
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Verb
grudging
- present participle of grudge
Noun
grudging (plural grudgings)
- The state of bearing a grudge.
- 1806, Matthew Henry, An Exposition of All the Books of the Old and New Testaments
- Fretfulness and discontent expose us to the just judgment of God; and we bring more calamities upon ourselves, by our murmuring, distrustful, envious groans and grudgings against one another, than we are aware of […]
- 1806, Matthew Henry, An Exposition of All the Books of the Old and New Testaments