Jealousy
['dʒeləsɪ] or ['dʒɛləsi]
Definition
(noun.) zealous vigilance; 'cherish their official political freedom with fierce jealousy'-Paul Blanshard.
(noun.) a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival).
Edited by Daniel--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality of being jealous; earnest concern or solicitude; painful apprehension of rivalship in cases nearly affecting one's happiness; painful suspicion of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Suspicion (especially in matters of love).
Typist: Morton
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Suspicion, envy, rivalry, solicitude
ANT:Certainty, magnanimity, friendliness, generousness, {without_solicitude}
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are jealous of your wife, denotes the influence of enemies and narrow-minded persons. If jealous of your sweetheart, you will seek to displace a rival. If a woman dreams that she is jealous of her husband, she will find many shocking incidents to vex and make her happiness a travesty. If a young woman is jealous of her lover, she will find that he is more favorably impressed with the charms of some other woman than herself. If men and women are jealous over common affairs, they will meet many unpleasant worries in the discharge of every-day business.
Typist: Rex
Examples
- He regarded it as a mixture of jealousy and dunderheaded prejudice. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The jealousy of the artist to maintain that reputation, which his ingenuity has justly acquired, has urged him to unnecessary pains on this subject. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- A thorough, determined dislike of me--a dislike which I cannot but attribute in some measure to jealousy. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Donnez-moi la main, said he, and the spite and jealousy melted out of his face, and a generous kindliness shone there instead. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Everybody is ill now, I think,' said Mrs. Hale, with a little of the jealousy which one invalid is apt to feel of another. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- There is jealousy. Jane Austen. Emma.
- When I perceived (which I did, almost as soon) that jealousy was growing out of this, I liked this society still better. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I think I never felt jealousy till now. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And, as she was by no means so far superior to her sex as to be above jealousy, she disliked him the more for his adoration of Amelia. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The god of jealousy himself, he said, could find no fault with such a study. Plato. The Republic.
- I thought he would be mad with jealousy. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Miss Ingram was a mark beneath jealousy: she was too inferior to excite the feeling. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- His wife's tigerish jealousy came to my rescue and forced his attention away from me the moment he possessed himself of my hand. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They were perfectly free from any jealousy of Mansfield. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Of various admirals I could tell you a great deal: of them and their flags, and the gradation of their pay, and their bickerings and jealousies. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- No, he never had suspicions; all those dumb doubts and surly misgivings which had been gathering on his mind were mere idle jealousies. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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