Envoyship

Office, rank, or dignity of an envoy. En'vy, v. a. [Fr. envier; Lat. invidere-in, and videre, to see on purpose, to look at. See VISION.] To hate or dislike on account of prosperity and happine ; to repine at another's well-doing; to grudge another's superior position or advantages. To feel uneasine , chagrin, mortification, or discontent at the sight of superior excellence, reputation, or happine enjoyed by another. IMG:content-0056.jpg:[blocks in formation] -To covet; to hanker after; to desire strongly; as, "the envied ki to share." Gray. -v. n. To feel envy; to experience a sense of longing for something po e ed by another, and hence, unattainable. "Who would envy at the prosperity of the wicked?"-Taylor. -n. An uneasine of mind, occasioned by the consideration of a good we discover in the po e ion of another person, whom we deem le worthy of it than ourselves. It is characterized by a degree of sorrow that the good contemplated should escape ourselves, and of anger, that it should fall to the share of another. It differs from emulation, which is merely a desire to become po e ed of something which is enjoyed by another; whereas in envy there is a malevolent feeling which desires that others be brought down below our own level.