Significat

• Noun

  1. Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).
  2. An object of envious notice or feeling.
  3. (obsolete) Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling.
  4. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1
  5. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1: 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.
  6. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1: 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.
  7. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1: 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.
  8. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1: 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.
  9. (obsolete) Emulation; rivalry.
  10. (obsolete) Public odium; ill repute.
  11. A red-skinned variety of eating apple.

• Verb