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 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

Quoth the envier, 'I have journeyed hither on purpose to tell thee a piece of good news.

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

The envier then said to him, I have come hither to inform thee of a matter in which thou wilt find advantage, and for which I shall obtain a recompense in heaven.

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

"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

This woman is not so ill as she doth make believe, but practiseth deceit upon thee and I ween that some enemy or envier hath plotted a plot against me and thee.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir