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Envy
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) Emulation; rivalry.
(2):
(n.) Public odium; ill repute.
(3):
(n.) An object of envious notice or feeling.
(4):
(n.) Malice; ill will; spite.
(5):
(n.) 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 Caesar.
(6):
(v. i.) To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes; - used especially with at.
(7):
(v. t.) 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.
(8):
(v. t.) 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.
(9):
(v. t.) To long after; to desire strongly; to covet.
(10):
(v. t.) To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
(11):
(v. t.) To hate.
(12):
(v. t.) To emulate.
(13):
(v. i.) To show malice or ill will; to rail.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Envy'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/e/envy.html. 1828.
