envy
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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 and Old English nīþ.
Inflected forms:
form: envies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: envies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: envying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: envied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: envied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
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
gloss: An object of envious notice or feeling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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
gloss: Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Emulation; rivalry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: c. 1631-1636, John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
Such as cleanliness and decency
Prompt to a virtuous envy.
gloss: Public odium; ill repute.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: to lay the envy of the war upon Cicero
gloss: A red-skinned variety of eating apple.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.”
gloss: To resentfully or discontentedly desire (something someone else has that one lacks).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To have envious feelings (at).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: I do not envy at their wealth, titles, offices;[…]let me live quiet and at ease.
Who envy at the prosperity of the wicked?
gloss: To give (something) to (someone) grudgingly or reluctantly; to begrudge.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: But that sweet Cordiall, which can restore
 A loue-sick hart, she did to him enuy[…].
gloss: To show malice or ill will; to rail.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: He has[…]envied against the people.
gloss: To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: If I make a lie
 To gain your love and envy my best mistress,
 Put me against a wall.
gloss: To hate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Both jealous of my love, envied each other
gloss: To emulate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Let later age that noble vse enuie,
Vile rancour to auoid, and cruell surquedrie
Antonyms: kindness
Derived words: boob envy
breast envy
class envy
envious
envy-free
envyful
envysome
feature envy
foreskin envy
frienvy
gender envy
green with envy
penis envy
physics envy
politics of envy
social envy
vagina envy
womb envy
envyingly
unenvying
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