Noun: envy
| Singular | envy |
| Plural | envies |
Sample Sentences
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No bliss enjoyed by us excites his envy more. [1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 263–264:]
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Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave,
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Is emulation in the learned or brave. [1804, Alexander Pope, The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, page 71:]
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distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour. [1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, page 9:]
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Theodorus assures Socrates that no envy will prevent the Stranger from responding [1983, Stanley Rosen, Plato's Sophist: The Drama of Original and Image, page 66:]
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This constitution in former days used to be the envy of the world[.] [1843, Thomas Macaulay, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Carey & Hart, page 277:]
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Blacke Foryst of Despayr, taking photos of the band
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Put 'em up on Myspace you're the envy of the land [2008, Lich King (band), “Black Metal Sucks”, in Toxic Zombie Onslaught:]
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Syre said laūcelot vnto Arthur by this crye that ye haue made ye wyll put vs that ben aboute yow in grete Ieopardy
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for there be many Knyghtes that haue grete enuye to vs
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therfore whan we shal mete at the daye of Iustes there wille be hard skyfte amonge vs [1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “lij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:]
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But let me tell the World,
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If he out-liue the enuie of this day,
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England did neuer owe so sweet a hope,
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So much misconstrued in his Wantonnesse. [1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1:]
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c. 1631-1636, John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
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Such as cleanliness and decency
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Prompt to a virtuous envy.
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to lay the envy of the war upon Cicero [1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, →OCLC, (please specify the page):]
Nouns inflected like envy
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Old French enviebor.
3. Middle English envie
4. English envy
5. From Middle English envie, from Old French envie, from Latin invidia (“envy”), from invidere (“to look at with malice”), from in- (“on, upon”) + videre (“to look, see”). Doublet of envie. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *zavistь (“envy”).
6. Displaced native Old English æfest and Old English nīþ. See: Middle English Nouns '
envie', Latin Nouns '
invidia'.
Verbs referencing "envy"
Portuguese Nouns
inveja.