Noun

The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.

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An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.

A person or thing exerting such power or action.

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(astrology) An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the position of the stars and planets at the time of one's birth.

(obsolete) The action of flowing in; influx.

* Hooker

God hath his influence into the very essence of all things.

(electricity) Electrostatic induction.

Noun

Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:No bliss enjoyed by us excites his envy more.

*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

*:Envy , to which the ignoble mind's a slave, / Is emulation in the learned or brave.

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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracydistilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.

*1983 , (Stanley Rosen), Plato’s Sophist , p.66:

*:Theodorus assures Socrates that no envy will prevent the Stranger from responding

An object of envious notice or feeling.

* (1800-1859)

*:This constitution in former days used to be the envy of the world.

(lb) Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling.

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*:Syre said la?celot vnto Arthur by this crye that ye haue made ye wyll put vs that ben aboute yow in grete Ieopardy / for there be many Knyghtes that haue grete enuye to vs / therfore whan we shal mete at the daye of Iustes there wille be hard skyfte amonge vs

*1598 , (William Shakespeare), :

*:But let me tell the World, / If he out-liue the enuie of this day, / England did neuer owe so sweet a hope, / So much misconstrued in his Wantonnesse.

(lb) Emulation; rivalry.

* (1586-c.1639)

*:Such as cleanliness and decency / Prompt to a virtuous envy .

(lb) Public odium; ill repute.

*(Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)

*:to lay the envy of the war upon Cicero