jealousy

Roget category 920

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.3. Sympathetic affections
›› 6.3.4. Retrospective sympathetic affections

#920. Jealousy

noun

jealousy, jealousness — jaundiced eye — envious suspicion, suspicion — green-eyed monster" [Othello]; yellows — Juno.

verb

be jealous etc. adj. — view with jealousy, view with a jealous eye.

adjective

jealous, jealous as a barbary pigeon^† — jaundiced, yellow-eyed, envious, hornmad.

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