envy

Roget category 921

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

#921. Envy

noun

envy — enviousness etc. adj. — rivalry — jalousie de milier [Fr.] — illwill, spite.

verb

envy, covet, burst with envy.

adjective

envious, invidious, covetous — alieni appetens [Lat.].

phrase

base envy withers at another's joy" [Thomson]; caeca invidia est [Lat.] [Livy]; multa petentibus desunt multa [Lat.] [Horace]; summa petit livor [Lat.] [Ovid].

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