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Envy vs Prejudice - What's the difference?

envy | prejudice |

In obsolete terms the difference between envy and prejudice

is that envy is to emulate while prejudice is mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.

In transitive terms the difference between envy and prejudice

is that envy is to feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions while prejudice is to cause prejudice.

envy

English

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.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • *:
  • *: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
  • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions.
  • (obsolete) To have envious feelings (at).
  • *, II.3.3:
  • I do not envy at their wealth, titles, offices;let me live quiet and at ease.
  • *Jeremy Taylor:
  • Who would envy at the prosperity of the wicked?
  • (obsolete) To give (something) to (someone) grudgingly or reluctantly; to begrudge.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.v:
  • But that sweet Cordiall, which can restore / A loue-sick hart, she did to him enuy  […].
  • (obsolete) To show malice or ill will; to rail.
  • *Shakespeare:
  • He hasenvied against the people.
  • (obsolete) To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
  • * J. Fletcher
  • If I make a lie / To gain your love and envy my best mistress, / Put me against a wall.
  • (obsolete) To hate.
  • (Marlowe)
  • (obsolete) To emulate.
  • (Spenser)

    prejudice

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

  • (countable) An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge of the facts.
  • * (rfdate) (Macaulay)
  • Though often misled by prejudice and passion, he was emphatically an honest man.
  • (countable) Any preconceived opinion or feeling, whether positive or negative.
  • (countable) An irrational hostile attitude, fear or hatred towards a particular group, race or religion.
  • I am free of all prejudices . I hate everyone equally.
  • (obsolete) Knowledge formed in advance; foresight, presaging.
  • * , II.ix:
  • the first did in the forepart sit, / That nought mote hinder his quicke preiudize : / He had a sharpe foresight, and working wit
  • (obsolete) Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.
  • (Locke)
  • * (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
  • England and France might, through their amity, / Breed him some prejudice .

    Derived terms

    * (law) without prejudice – without affecting a legal interest * in prejudice of – to the detriment or injury of * to the prejudice of – with resulting harm to

    Verb

    (prejudic)
  • To have a negative impact on someone's position, chances etc.
  • To cause prejudice.
  • See also

    * stereotype * bias * discrimination * racism English transitive verbs ----