Enviously

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².] In an envious manner.

  † a.  In a spirit of emulation or rivalry. Obs. b. Maliciously, spitefully, grudgingly.

c. 1350.  Will. Palerne, 1129. Burnes he sent Enuiously to þemperour & egged him swiþe Bi a certayne day bataile to a-bide.

c. 1430.  Lydg., Story Thebes, in Chaucer’s Wks. (1561), ccclxxv b. They on Greekes enuiously gan to shout.

1509.  Fisher, 7 Penit. Ps., xxxviii. II. Wks. 86. All they … enuyously haue conspyred the deth of a symple persone.

1602.  Shaks., Ham., IV. v. 6. She … beats her heart, Spurnes enuiously at Strawes.

1639.  Fuller, Holy War, III. viii. (1840), 130. The cross enviously concealed by the Turks.

1664.  H. More, Myst. Iniq., iii. 7. Those Doctrines of Devils, which they enviously and insultingly entangled poor mankind withall.