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envy(2) (iou)



envy noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French envie from Latin invidia, from invidere look maliciously upon, grudge, formed as IN-2 + videre see.]
Hostility; malice; enmity. ME-E18.
b. Unpopularity, odium. L16-L17.
a. A feeling of resentful or discontented longing aroused by another person's better fortune, situation, etc. (Foll. by of, at the person, at, of a thing.) ME.
E. O'Brien I noticed with envy that her legs were delicately tanned.
b. The object or ground of envy. M19.
Times We had..a musical education system that was the envy of the world.
[Infl. by French.] Longing, desire; enthusiasm. LME-E17.
envyful adjective (long obsolete exc. Scot.) full of envy or malice M16.