Definition of "grudge"

Bag. And if I do not my good Lord damme me for it / I haue an old grudge at him cole black curre, / He ſhall haue two ſteele bullets ſtrongly charg’d

1607, Barnabe Barnes, THE DIVILS CHARTER: A TRAGÆDIE Conteining the Life and Death of Pope Alexander the ſixt, ACTVS. 5, SCÆ. 1

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.

1876–1877, Henry James, Jr., chapter XXII, in The American, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […], published 5 May 1877, page 389

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.

1913, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter XV, in Child of Storm‎

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 :

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

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?

1841, Edmund Burke, The Annual Register, Rivingtons, page 430

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.

1869, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment‎, Fields, Osgood, & Co., page 62

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.

1922 February, James Joyce, “Episode 12: The Cyclops”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […]

I've never seen such people for borrowing and lending; there was dough changing hands in all directions, and nobody grudged anyone.

1953, Saul Bellow, chapter 3, in The Adventures of Augie March, New York: Viking Press

And the pharises, and scribes grudged sainge: He receaveth to his company synners [...].

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], Luke ]

Perish they / That grudge one thought against your majesty!

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene i]