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Definition of Envied
1. envy [v] - See also: envy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Envied
Literary usage of Envied
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers (1853)
"And 1 have oft admired why we have suffered ourselves to be so cheated by
contradictory vices, as to contemn this day him whom we envied the lost ; or why ..."
2. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"This was the cause why he was envied of the nobility and gentry, —being by birth
so much beneath all, by preferment so high above most of them. ..."
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