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grudgingness - definition and meaning
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from The Century Dictionary.
noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun
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noun grudging .
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grudging + -ness
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O'BRIEN: Yes, Rym, as this document comes out, just give us a sense, are the Iraqis giving it out in a spirit of being forthcoming, or is there a sense of grudgingness to all of this, put it that way?
CNN Transcript Dec 7, 2002 2002
For we cast blame upon Him, because we have not been made gods from the beginning, but at first merely men, then at length gods; although God has adopted this course out of His pure benevolence, that no one may impute to Him invidiousness or grudgingness .
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
It was not from grudgingness that our Lord gave the charge in
The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry Joseph Fort Newton 1913
Mrs. Noakes admitted with the grudgingness of a person of uncheerful temperament, that looks like that always would make talk.
The Shuttle 1907
Mrs. Noakes admitted with the grudgingness of a person of uncheerful temperament, that looks like that always would make talk.
The Shuttle Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
Contrast the willingness with which you sacrifice yourself for some dear one with the grudgingness with which you yield yourselves to Him.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII Alexander Maclaren 1868
How many went to their lords like menials for the pittance which their necessities required, and felt all their nature outraged by the sense of beggary force on them by the grudgingness of the bestowal.
Woman's Rights Convention Staff 1856
Nothing grates on me more than that posthumous grudgingness toward a wife.
Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849
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