| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers | | Section III. Sympathetic Affections | | 4. Retrospective Sympathetic Affections |
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| 920. Jealousy. |
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| NOUN: | JEALOUSY, jealousness; jaundiced eye; distrust, mistrust, misdoubt, heartburn; envy [See Envy]; doubt, envious suspicion, suspicion; “greeneyed monster” [Othello]; yellows; Juno.
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| VERB: | BE JEALOUS &c. adj.; view with jealousy, view with a jealous eye, view with a jaundiced eye; grudge, begrudge.
doubt, distrust, mistrust, suspect, misdoubt, heartburn [obs.]; jealouse [obs. or Scot. & dial. Eng.].
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| ADJECTIVE: | JEALOUS, jealous as a Barbary pigeon; jaundiced, yellow-eyed, envious; beside oneself with -jealousy, - envy.
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| QUOTATIONS: | - Jealousy is cruel as the grave.—Bible
- In jealousy there is more self-love than love.—La Rochefoucauld
- For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.—Byron
- The injur’d lover’s hell.—Paradise Lost
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