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

Ah, and is it then true that there is no friendship for me; must every friend be an envier or else a lover?

From Marie Antoinette and Her Son by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

Abide he bade him: nor was need To bid when Balen wheeled his steed Fiercely, less fain by word than deed To bid his envier evil speed,    And cried, “What wilt thou with me?”

From The Tale of Balen by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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

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)