Definitions
spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Word origin
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”).
Used in a sentence
“No bliss enjoyed by us excites his envy more.”
“Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave.”
“distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Jealous feeling”4 letters
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