Envying
noun, verb
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A feeling of envy.
"Their moderation may perhaps keep them from the bitter envyings and hatred, to which ambitious worldlings are subject […]"
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of envy form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"Wherefore the Palestines envying him, stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his father, Abraham, had digged, filling them up with Earth."
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