Envying

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 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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