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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Envy \En"vy\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Envied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Envying}.] [F. envier.]
1. To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it.
A woman does not envy a man for his fighting courage, nor a man a woman for her beauty. --Collier.
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. --Rambler.
2. To feel envy on account of; to have a feeling of grief or repining, with a longing to possess (some excellence or good fortune of another, or an equal good fortune, etc.); to look with grudging upon; to begrudge.
I have seen thee fight, When I have envied thy behavior. --Shak.
Jeffrey . . . had actually envied his friends their cool mountain breezes. --Froude.
3. To long after; to desire strongly; to covet.
Or climb his knee the envied kiss to share. --T. Gray.
4. To do harm to; to injure; to disparage. [Obs.]
If I make a lie To gain your love and envy my best mistress, Put me against a wall. --J. Fletcher.
5. To hate. [Obs.] --Marlowe.
6. To emulate. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Envy \En"vy\, noun; pl. {Envies}. [F. envie, L. invidia envious; akin to invidere to look askance at, to look with enmity; in against + videre to see. See {Vision}.]
1. Malice; ill will; spite. [Obs.]
If he evade us there, Enforce him with his envy to the people. --Shak.
2. Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious grudging; -- usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of C[ae]sar.
Envy is a repining at the prosperity or good of another, or anger and displeasure at any good of another which we want, or any advantage another hath above us. --Ray.
No bliss Enjoyed by us excites his envy more. --Milton.
Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave. --Pope.
3. Emulation; rivalry. [Obs.]
Such as cleanliness and decency Prompt to a virtuous envy. --Ford.
4. Public odium; ill repute. [Obs.]
To lay the envy of the war upon Cicero. --B. Jonson.
5. An object of envious notice or feeling.
This constitution in former days used to be the envy of the world. --Macaulay.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Envy \En"vy\, verb (used without an object)
1. To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at.
Who would envy at the prosperity of the wicked? --Jer. Taylor.
2. To show malice or ill will; to rail. [Obs.] ''He has . . . envied against the people.'' --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
envy
noun
1: a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something possessed by another [syn: {enviousness}, {the green-eyed monster}]
2: spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: {invidia}]
verb
1: feel envious towards; admire enviously
2: be envious of; set one's heart on [syn: {begrudge}] [also: {envied}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "envy": Faustianism, acedia, anger, avarice, avaritia, begrudge, cast envious eyes, cold comfort, covet, covetousness, crave, deadly sin, desire, disappointment, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, disgruntlement, dissatisfaction, dissatisfiedness, divine discontent, enviousness, gluttony, greed, green-eyed jealousy, green-eyed monster, grudge, grudging, gula, hanker, heartburn, heartburning, horn-madness, ill humor, invidia, invidiousness, ira, jalousie, jaundice, jaundiced eye, jealousness, jealousy, long, longing, lust, luxuria, peevishness, petulance, pride, querulousness, rebelliousness, resent, resentment, restiveness, restlessness, sloth, sourness, sulkiness, superbia, uneasiness, unfulfillment, unhappiness, unpleasure, unsatisfaction, vexation of spirit, want, wrath, yearn
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
ENVY, noun Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
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