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Envious vs Resentment - What's the difference?

envious | resentment |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between envious and resentment

is that envious is (obsolete) malignant; mischievous; spiteful while resentment is (obsolete) satisfaction; gratitude.

As an adjective envious

is feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging.

As a noun resentment is

a feeling of anger or displeasure stemming from belief that one has been wronged by others or betrayed; indignation.

envious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging
    • an envious''' man, disposition, or attack; '''envious tongues
  • * Bible, Proverbs xxiv. 19.
    • Neither be thou envious at the wicked.
  • * Keble
    • My soul is envious of mine eye.
  • Excessively careful; cautious.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • No men are so envious of their health.
  • (obsolete) Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch.
  • (obsolete, poetic) Inspiring envy.
  • * Spenser
    • He to him leapt, and that same envious gage / Of victor's glory from him snatched away.

    See also

    * (l)

    Anagrams

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    resentment

    English

    Noun

  • A feeling of anger or displeasure stemming from belief that one has been wronged by others or betrayed; indignation.
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  • * 1812 ,
    • Amongst the most violent against him was Mrs. Bennet, whose dislike of his general behaviour was sharpened into particular resentment by his having slighted one of her daughters.
  • (obsolete) The state of holding something in the mind as a subject of contemplation, or of being inclined to reflect upon it; feeling; impression.
  • * Dr. H. More
    • He retains vivid resentments of the more solid morality.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • It is a greater wonder that so many of them die, with so little resentment of their danger.
  • (obsolete) satisfaction; gratitude
  • * 1651 , The Council Book
    • The Council taking notice of the many good services performed by Mr. John Milton have thought fit to declare their resentment and good acceptance of the same.

    See also

    * dudgeon * umbrage