Noun

(label) The action of competing.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

(label) A contest for a prize or award.

The competitors in such a contest.

Noun

(uncountable) A state of suspicious guarding towards a spouse, lover etc., from fears of infidelity.

(countable) A resentment towards someone for a perceived advantage or superiority they hold.

* 1907 , Charles J. Archard, The Portland Peerage Romance :

Jealousy was, however, aroused among the English nobility at the favouritism shown the Dutch newcomer.

Envy towards another's possessions

* 1891 , Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne, translated by R. W. Phipps, Memoirs Of Napoleon Bonaparte :

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(archaic) A close concern for someone or something, solicitude, vigilance.

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For euer I supoosed that he had ben to yonge and to tendyr to take vpon hym these aduentures / And therfore by my wille I wold haue dryuen hym aweye for Ialousy that I had of his lyf / for it maye be no yong knyghtes dede that shal enchyeue this aduenture to the ende