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Definition of Jealousness
1. n. State or quality of being jealous.
Definition of Jealousness
1. Noun. The state or condition of being jealous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jealousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jealousness
Literary usage of Jealousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1918)
"Scholarship's constant saint, he kept her light In him divinely white: With
cloistral jealousness of ardour strove To guard her sacred grove, Inviolate by ..."
2. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, William Caxton (1903)
"... and all knights speak of him worship ; and for jealousness of his queen he
hath chased him out of his country. It is pity, said Sir Lamorak, ..."
3. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1911)
""I seen 'em near froth at the mouth with such jealousness. "Such feelin's ain't
fer me," Addie placidly responded as she helped herself to pepper-slaw and ..."
4. Sermons by Phillips Brooks (1903)
"You see our very jealousness for God's honor comes and lays itself across the
path by which our timid souls are creeping to His mercy-seat. ..."
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