| 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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| 921. Envy. |
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| NOUN: | ENVY; enviousness &c. adj.; rivalry; jalousie de métier [F.]; ill-will, spite; jealousy [See Jealousy].
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| VERB: | ENVY, covet, grudge, begrudge, burst with envy, break the tenth commandment.
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| ADJECTIVE: | ENVIOUS, invidious, covetous, grudging, begrudged; belittling; alieni appetens [L.].
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| QUOTATIONS: | - Base envy withers at another’s joy.—Thomson
- Cæca invidia est.—Livy
- Multa petentibus desunt multa.—Horace
- Summa petit livor.—Ovid
- For envy is a kind of praise.—Gay
- Envy, to which th’ ignoble mind’s a slave, Is emulation in the learn’d or brave.—Pope
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