Word Finder - jealousy

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A state of suspicious guarding towards a spouse, lover etc., from fears of infidelity.

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A resentment towards someone for a perceived advantage or superiority they hold.

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Envy towards another's possessions

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A close concern for someone or something, solicitude, vigilance.

It was nothing but pure jealousy that guided her thoughts – and fear of losing him.

The only thing jealousy did was make people miserable.

It wasn't jealousy that troubled him.

Mom always said jealousy would destroy a marriage quicker than anything.

Deidre said, sensing the jealousy in the woman before her.

Katie.s jealousy stirred again.

All their former disharmony and her own jealousy recurred to her mind.

It wasn't just because of her jealousy over the fact he slept with everyone, it was also her insecurity.

It was only the habit of interurban jealousy which prevented the communes from at once combining to resist demands which threatened their liberty of action, and would leave them passive at the pleasure of a foreign master The diet was opened at Roncaglia near Piacenza, where Fredericli listened to the complaints of Como and Lodi against Milan, of Pavia against Tortona and of the marquis of Montferrat against Asti and Chieri.

The doctor, whether from lack of means or because he did not like to part from his young wife in the early days of their marriage, took her about with him wherever the hussar regiment went and his jealousy had become a standing joke among the hussar officers.

Saul's daughter Michal loved him; and her father, whose jealousy continued to increase, resolved to put the young captain on a perilous enterprise, promising him the hand of Michal as a reward of success, but secretly hoping that he would perish in the attempt.

His jealousy was provoked by the successes of Agricola in Britain, who was recalled to Rome (85) in the midst of his conquests, condemned to retirement, and perhaps removed by poison.

Why did she feel jealousy stirring at the sight of this pretty woman?

But the energy and enterprise of Evagoras soon roused the jealousy of the Great King, and relations between them became strained.

Another was the jealousy prevailing in England against the principles of the Roman law on which English equity to a large extent was founded.

After being the popular favourite of Israel in the little district of Benjamin, he was driven away by the jealousy and animosity of Saul.

These proceedings aroused the anger and jealousy of the barons, and their wrath was diminished neither by Gaveston's superior skill at the tournament, nor by his haughty and arrogant behaviour to themselves.

John from the first regarded his son with jealousy, which after his second marriage with Joan Henriquez, and under her influence, grew into absolute hatred.

Great jealousy of their increasing power was excited amongst the neighbouring princes, and Odoardo Farnese, duke of Parma, made war upon Taddeo, and defeated the papal troops.

On a positive note, Scorpio's level of jealousy is equal to his level of devotion.

Scorpio, although a water sign, is extremely deep-rooted and can be prone to hefty fits of jealousy.

The immature bull can go on a rampage of jealousy over the slightest thing he deems is an act of unfaithfulness.

Many people may not realize how obsessed Taurus can become over love, and they often underestimate the Taurean trait of jealousy.

An evolved Taurean is good at hiding his jealousy, but isn't above doing something about it.

Trouble often arrives in the form of jealousy since both signs love to flirt.

Dark or deep green, however, is also associated with jealousy, insecurity and low self-esteem; all qualities that often go hand-in-hand with love.

His stunt tonight was nothing short of jealousy.

A strange sense went through her, one she might think was jealousy.

A trickle of jealousy moved through her, but she dismissed it, unwilling to think about the woman he'd slept with less than two weeks before.

Jealousy doesn't become you, honey.

The favours he received from the sovereign excited the jealousy of the vizier, and he was driven back to Africa (1364), where he was received with great cordiality by the sultan of Bougie, Abu Abdallah, who had been formerly his companion in prison.

He was the only Russian statesman of the day with sufficient foresight to grasp the fact that the Baltic seaboard, or even a part of it, was worth more to Muscovy than ten times the same amount of territory in Lithuania, and, despite ignorant jealousy of his colleagues, succeeded (Dec. 1658) in concluding a three-years' truce whereby the Muscovites were left in possession of all their conquests in Livonia.

But his whole official career was a constant struggle with narrow routine and personal jealousy on the part of the boyars and clerks of the council.

With him, as with his father, the politics of the Marches had been the main consideration; his final change of side was due to jealousy of the younger Despenser, whose lordship of Glamorgan was too great for the comfort of the Bohuns in Brecon.

If these lines were dictated by a jealousy of the growing ascendancy of Ennius, the life of Naevius must have been prolonged considerably beyond 204, the year in which Ennius began his career as an author in Rome.

The officers in the council, moreover, showed jealousy of the civil members, and to settle these difficulties and to provide money a parliament was summoned on the 27th of January 1659, which declared Richard protector, and incurred the hostility of the army by criticizing severely the arbitrary military government of Oliver's last two years, and by impeaching one of the major-generals.

But the strong-handed intervention of Chile on the ground of assistance rendered to rebels, but really through jealousy of the confederation, ended in the defeat and overthrow of Santa Cruz, and the separation of Bolivia from Peru.

The temporary success of the Lombard league helped to strengthen the towns; but their ineradicable jealousy of one another soon.

At first she influenced Jahangir for good, but surrounding herself with her relatives she aroused the jealousy of the imperial princes; and Jahangir died in 1627 in the midst of a rebellion headed by his son, Khurram or Shah Jahan, and his greatest general, Mahabat Khan.

She seemed to consider Swedish affairs as far too petty to occupy her full attention; while her unworthy treatment of the great chancellor was mainly due to her jealousy of his extraordinary reputation and to the uneasy conviction that, so long as he was alive, his influence must at least be equal to her own.

The individualistic principle was shown in the jealousy of the towns toward the central government, and in the establishment of legislative supremacy over the executive and the judiciary.

His rule was noted for firmness, moderation and high political sagacity, and he succeeded for a long time in retaining the friendship and confidence of his master the shah, although his career was beset with political intrigues and jealousy on the part of rival and court favourites, and with internal turbulence.

Her failure was due partly to the commercial jealousy of Corinth working on the dull antipathy of Sparta, partly to the hatred of compromise and discipline which was fatally characteristic of Greece and especially of Ionian Greece, and partly also to the lack of tact and restraint shown by Athens and her representatives in her relations with the allies.

When Tancred left the main body of the crusaders at Heraclea, and marched into Cilicia, Baldwin followed, partly in jealousy, partly from the same political motives which animated Tancred.

The alliance of this latter power with Athens accentuated the rising jealousy of the Corinthians, who, after deprecating a federal war in 440, virtually forced Sparta's hand against Athens in 432.

But Lysander's boundless influence and ambition, and the superhuman honours paid him, roused the jealousy of the kings and the ephors, and, on being accused by the Persian satrap Pharnabazus, he was recalled to Sparta.

It rested on a solid basis of mutual affection and of common studies, the different temperaments of the two scholars securing them against the disagreements of rivalry or jealousy.

He increased the pros- and French perity of his land considerably, but by so doing roused the jealousy of Ras Marie of Amhara - to whom he had refused tribute - and Ubie, son of Hailo Mariam, a governor of Simen.

The old princess did not reply, she was tormented by jealousy of her daughter's happiness.

Your ex says she is willing to get help with her jealousy should the two of you to get back together.