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Word Meanings - ENVY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

invidere to look askance at, to look with enmity; in against + videre 1. Malice; ill will; spite. If he evade us there, Enforce him with his envy to the people. Shak. 2. Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's

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invidere to look askance at, to look with enmity; in against + videre 1. Malice; ill will; spite. If he evade us there, Enforce him with his envy to the people. Shak. 2. Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious grudging; -- usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of Cæsar. Envy is a repining at the prosperity or good of another, or anger and displeasure at any good of another which we want, or any advantage another hath above us. Ray. No bliss Enjoyed by us excites his envy more. Milton. Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave. Pope. 3. Emulation; rivalry. Such as cleanliness and decency Prompt to a virtuous envy. Ford. 4. Public odium; ill repute. To lay the envy of the war upon Cicero. B. Jonson. 5. An object of envious notice or feeling. This constitution in former days used to be the envy of the world. Macaulay.

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    A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
  • LAVISHNESS
    The quality or state of being lavish.
  • WASTETHRIFT
    A spendthrift.
  • SPENDTHRIFT
    One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.
  • LAVISHER
    One who lavishes.
  • SPENDER
    One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
  • WASTEBOARD
    See 3
  • SQUANDER
    scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqvätta to squirt, sqvättra to squander, Icel. skvetta to squirt out, to throw 1. To scatter; to disperse. Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden. 2. To spend lavishly or profusely;
  • RETAINMENT
    The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
  • GRUDGEONS; GURGEONS
    Coarse meal.
  • SOLICITUDE
    The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety. The many cares and great labors of worldly men, their solicitude and outward shows. Sir W. Raleigh. The mother looked at her with fond solicitude.
  • SPENDTHRIFTY
    Spendthrift; prodigal.
  • INDULGEMENT
    Indulgence. Wood.
  • COVETIVENESS
    Acquisitiveness.
  • SPARE
    1. To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save. "No cost would he spare." Chaucer. thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare. Milton. He that hath knowledge, spareth his words. Prov.
  • INDULGENCE
    Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of
  • WASTE
    the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. wüst, OS. w, D. woest, 1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into
  • WASTEFUL
    1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. 2. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful
  • WITHHOLD
    1. To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him. Spenser. 2. To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. Forbid who will, none shall
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    Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
  • BESCATTER
    1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
  • OVERWASTED
    Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
  • TRANSPARENT
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    To spend; to squander. See Dispend. Some noble men in Spain can despend Howell.
  • MISSPEND
    To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money. J. Philips.
  • FOREWASTE
    See GASCOIGNE

 

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