Meaning of envy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Envy, jealousy.
2. Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).
   countable, uncountable
3. An object of envious notice or feeling.
   countable, uncountable
4. Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
5. Emulation; rivalry.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
6. Public odium; ill repute.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
7. A red-skinned variety of eating apple.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“No bliss enjoyed by us excites his envy more.”

“Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave.”

“distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.”

“Theodorus assures Socrates that no envy will prevent the Stranger from responding”

“This constitution in former days used to be the envy of the world[.]”

“Blacke Foryst of Despayr, taking photos of the band Put 'em up on Myspace you're the envy of the land”

“Syre said laūcelot vnto Arthur by this crye that ye haue made ye wyll put vs that ben aboute yow in grete Ieopardy for there be many Knyghtes that haue grete enuye to vs therfore whan we shal mete at the daye of Iustes there wille be hard skyfte amonge vs”

“But let me tell the World, If he out-liue the enuie of this day, England did neuer owe so sweet a hope, So much misconstrued in his Wantonnesse.”

“c. 1631-1636, John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble Such as cleanliness and decency Prompt to a virtuous envy.”

“to lay the envy of the war upon Cicero”

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