envier

American  

[en-vee-er] / ˈɛn vi ər /

noun

1. a person who feels envy.

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Etymology

Origin of envier

First recorded in 1500–10; envy + -er ¹

Example Sentences

And Sahwah the Sunfish, the lover of maiden bravery, the envier of heroines, was the greatest of them all, and knew it not.

From The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping by Frey, Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude)

Then, said the envier, order the Faḳeers to retire to their cells, for the information that I am about to give thee I would have no one overhear.

From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous

And thus I grasp thy amplitudes, of her Ungrasped, though helped by nigh-regarding eyes; Canst thou then hate me as an envier Who see unrecked what I so dearly prize?

From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas

"O Afrit," rejoined I, "it would best become thee to pardon me, even as the envied pardoned the envier."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by Payne, John

The poem concludes with a dedication to Jaufre Rudel— Lo vers e�l son vueill envier A'n Jaufre Rudel outra mar.

From The Troubadours by Chaytor, H.J.