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envie | envier |

As a verb envie

is .

As a noun envier is

one who envies.

envie

English

Verb

  • (obsolete) To vie; to emulate; to strive.
    • (Spenser)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    envier

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who envies.
  • * 1816 , Francis Gibbon, The public characters of Europe (page 578)
    • There was a period, when the enviers of Bernadotte, taking advantage of this kind of popularity which he had obtained, represented him to the Directory as a man dangerous to liberty
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