meaning of envy
1. To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of anothers excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it.
2. To feel envy on account of; to have a feeling of grief or repining, with a longing to possess (some excellence or good fortune of another, or an equal good fortune, etc. ); to look with grudging upon; to begrudge.
3. To long after; to desire strongly; to covet.
4. To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
5. To hate.
6. To emulate.
7. To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at.
8. To show malice or ill will; to rail.
9. Malice; ill will; spite.
10. Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of anothers 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 Caesar.
11. Emulation; rivalry.
12. Public odium; ill repute.
13. An object of envious notice or feeling.
14. spite and resentment at seeing the success of another personified as one of the deadly sins
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