enviousness (enviusnes)

The state or quality of being envious. Bailey, 1727. enviret, v. t. [ME. enviren, enveren, Of the Holy Gost rounde aboute envirid . Lydgate. ( Hall i well .) Myne armez are of ancestrye enveryde with lordez, And has in banere bene borne sene syr Brut tyme. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1694. environt, adv. [ME. environ, enviroun, envyroun (usually joined with aboute, about), around. A compas enviroun . Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 300. The erthe is fulle large and fulle gret, and holt in roundne e and aboute envyroun , be aboven and be bene then 20425 miles. Mandeville , Travels, p. 185. And he kepte right wele the Citee and the contre envi ron, that noon that entred ne myght but litill it mysdo. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 179. Lord Godfrey's eye three times environ goes. Fairfax , tr. of Ta o, ii. 80.