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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Envy \En"vy\, v. t. [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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Envy \En"vy\, n.; 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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Envy \En"vy\, v. i. 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 1.6 [wn]: envy n 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}] v 1: feel envious towards; admire enviously 2: be envious of set one's heart on [syn: {begrudge}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
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