jealously
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]jealously (comparative more jealously, superlative most jealously)
- In a jealous manner.
- 1822, [Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 277:
- " […] I hope you find nothing risible in my complaisance?" replied his companion, something jealously.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 53–54:
- Ah! my brother, we do well to watch our birthright jealously; the least invasion on the meanest peasant, the slightest encroachment of the powerful, are not matters to be neglected—such are the first steps of tyranny.
- 1897, George Meredith, One of Our Conquerors, Complete[1]:
- Very many thousand times above Dudley Sowerby, Nataly ranked Dartrey Fenellan; and still she looked at him, where he sat beside Nesta, ungenially, critical of the very features, jealously in the interests of Dudley; and recollecting, too, that she had once prayed for one exactly resembling Dartrey Fenellan to be her Nesta's husband.
- 2019 January 3, Michael Smerconish, “The Nixon letter I can’t forget”, in CNN[2], archived from the original on 23 October 2021:
- Another friend was present while I was there, veteran criminal defense attorney William J. Brennan, jealously guarding an SUV full of memorabilia he’d purchased, including a Rizzo fedora and walking stick, the former of which he told me he hoped Rizzo was wearing during the famous “crumb bum” exchange with television reporter Stan Bohrman.
- 2020 February 23, Francisco Guzman, Brian Ries, “A YouTuber’s fancy Bali vacation sure looked nice. Nope, the photos were taken in an Ikea”, in CNN[3], archived from the original on 6 October 2022:
- So be warned – that influencer you are jealously watching travel the world might not be telling you every piece of the story. There’s a chance they never even left home at all.
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