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Definition of Enviously
1. Adverb. With jealousy; in an envious manner. "He looked at his friend's new car jealously"
Definition of Enviously
1. Adverb. In an envious manner or to an envious degree ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enviously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enviously
Literary usage of Enviously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"Around the landscape enviously weave ; Delightful 'tis, and soothing sweet, at
eve, When sunlight, like a dream, hath pass'd away, O'er I'ci 11 land's ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1801)
"... enviously rave. Is plainly thine :—no free-begotten slave, And where sits
G—n — e ; his the lyre all strung, Those courts where brother brother meets, ..."
3. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers (1853)
"Pliant Acanthus now the vine And ivy enviously beholds, Wishing her odorous arms
might twine About this fuir in such strict folds. ..."
4. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"pany this preacher, was enviously discovered, and put to death. 118 It is a
wonderful thing what operation this presbyterian spirit had upon the minds of ..."
5. A Pilgrim's Reliquary by Thomas Henry White (1845)
"I ^HAT indefatigable and single-hearted Commentator -*- on the Ancient Things of
The Catholic Church, whom Warburton superciliously or enviously calls ..."
6. Under Cover: Evolution of Upholstered Furniture by Ed van Hinte (2006)
"This recalls the ideas of the architect Jan Duiker, who enviously regarded the
African Negro as the ideal human type for being able to live unclothed, ..."
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