Also 6 enviour, 6–7 envyer. [f. ENVY v. + -ER1 (earlier -OUR.).] One who envies.

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1509.  Barclay, Shyp of Folys (1874), I. 8. Gluttons, wasters, enuiours, enchantours.

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1555.  Eden, Decades W. Ind., III. IX. (Arb.), 175. These malycious enuyers of other mens trauayles.

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1606.  Bacon, in Four C. Eng. Lett., 40. You are great, and therefore have the more enviers.

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1630–88.  trans. Camden’s Hist. Eliz., IV. (1675), 603. He was presently censured as an Envier of the Earl’s Honour and Liberty.

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a. 1762.  Lady M. W. Montague, Let. Mrs. Hewet, xcii. 152. Never bride had fewer enviers, the … man is so … detestable.

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1841.  D’Israeli, Amen. Lit. (1867), 316. Its opulence was an object it could not conceal from its enviers.

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1874.  Motley, Barneveld, II. xv. 180. The enviers of our peace and tranquillity.

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