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1 definition found 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.
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