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envy
has definitions from the fields of religion,theology
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[ verb ] feel envious towards; admire enviously
Used in print (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)`` Wherefore also He [ God ] drove him [ man ] out of Paradise , and removed him far from the tree of life , not because He envied him the tree of life , as some venture to assert , but because He pitied him , [ and did not desire ] that he should continue a sinner for ever , nor that the sin which surrounded him should be immortal , and evil interminable and irremediable . (Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)Stevie envied him . (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)She envied him . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something possessed by another
Synonyms Used in print (Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)fearful of being mistaken for a Jew , he seeks protection in his Nazi uniform ; clinging to the enemy Jew idea , he is forced to overcome habits of politeness and neighborliness ; once in power he begins to give_vent to a criminal opportunism that causes him to alternate between megalomania and envy of those above him . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (religion,theology) spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins)
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