envy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛnvi/
rhymes: -ɛnvi
Forms: form: envies
form: envying
form: envied
form: envied
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French enviebor.
Middle English envie
English envy
From Middle English envie, from Old French envie, from Latin invidia (“envy”), from invidere (“to look at with malice”), from in- (“on, upon”) + videre (“to look, see”). Doublet of envie. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *zavistь (“envy”).
Displaced native Old English æfest.
Senses: examples: text: Moon and Kim took a cable car together to Heaven Lake, a caldera at the top of the mountain, and walked around the area with their wives and officials from both sides.
Pictures showed Moon and Kim smiling and posing with their wives, and Moon filling a bottle with water from the lake.
“The Chinese envy us because they can’t go down to the lake from their side but we can,” Kim said.
“We should write another chapter of history between the North and the South by reflecting our new history on this Heaven Lake.”
ref: 2018 September 20, Hyonhee Shin, Joyce Lee, Soyoung Kim, Haejin Choi, Pyongyang Press Corps., “Fulfilling a dream, South Korea's Moon visits sacred North Korean mountain with Kim”, in Lincoln Feast, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 13 Nov 2018, World News:
glosses: To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions.
glosses: To resentfully or discontentedly desire (something someone else has that one lacks).
examples: text: I do not envy at their wealth, titles, offices;[…]let me live quiet and at ease.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 3:
text: Who envy at the prosperity of the wicked?
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
glosses: To have envious feelings (at).
examples: text: But that sweet Cordiall, which can restore
 A loue-sick hart, she did to him enuy[…].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To give (something) to (someone) grudgingly or reluctantly; to begrudge.
examples: text: He has[…]envied against the people.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: To show malice or ill will; to rail.
examples: text: If I make a lie
 To gain your love and envy my best mistress,
 Put me against a wall.
ref: c. 1621, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Pilgrim”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
examples: text: Both jealous of my love, envied each other
ref: c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: To hate.
examples: text: Let later age that noble vse enuie,
Vile rancour to auoid, and cruell surquedrie
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To emulate.
Derived terms: envyingly
unenvying