Both Uses of
begrudge
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- Yet I would rather my trifle were hid; though, perhaps, a high nater is a little high, and at my birth all things were possible to my Maker, and he may have begrudged no gifts….†
Chpt 31-33 *
- "I've danced at your skittish heels, my beautiful Bathsheba, for many a long mile, and many a long day; and it is hard to begrudge me this one visit."†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(begrudge) to resent (feel bitterness--usually over unfairness); or to give unwillingly