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Envy

noun

(pl. envies)

A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another. Synonym: enviousness.

Spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins). Synonym: invidia.

verb

(past & past part. envied; pres. part. envying)

Feel envious towards; admire enviously.

Be envious of; set one's heart on. Synonym: begrudge.

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"Envy" Quotes from Famous Books

... put life and soul into the dry bones of a science that had only wearied them before. The professor of botany himself sat in the front row and hammered the floor with his cane in approval. But his very success was the lecturer's undoing. Envy grew in place of the poverty he had conquered. The instructor, Nils Rosen, was abroad taking his doctor's degree. He came home to find his lectures deserted for the irresponsible teachings of a mere undergraduate. He made grievous complaint, and Linnaeus was silenced, to his great good ...

— Hero Tales of the Far North • Jacob A. Riis

... This is love in competition with others. Whenever you attempt a good work you will find other men doing the same kind of work, and probably doing it better. Envy them not. Envy is a feeling of ill-will to those who are in the same line as ourselves, a spirit of covetousness and detraction. How little Christian work even is a protection against un-Christian feeling! That most despicable of all the unworthy moods which cloud a Christian's soul assuredly ...

— Addresses • Henry Drummond

... quite unstrung and his voice was unsteady. The reputation of the late baronet had been one which I personally did not envy him, but whatever his faults, and I knew they had been many, he had evidently possessed the redeeming virtue of being ...

— The Green Eyes of Bast • Sax Rohmer

... you. Of course, I'm very fond of Melisande, but I do feel sometimes that I don't altogether envy the man ...

— Second Plays • A. A. Milne

... waves on the deadest shores of the Dead Sea. It's not that I'm idle, and it's not that I'm old, and it's not that there's anything wrong with this disappointingly healthy body of mine. But I rather think I need a change of some kind. I even envy Susie, who has ambled on to the Coast and is staying with the Lougheeds in Victoria, playing golf and picking winter roses and writing back about her trips up Vancouver Island and her approaching ...

— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer

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