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单词 to envy
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to envy
b. In the phrase to envy, i.e. to such a point as to excite envy; to the heart's content; to admiration; to perfection. Obsolete. Cf. 5.Perhaps suggested by French à l'envi, emulously, which is of different etymology. Cf. envy v.2, to which the first quot. may belong.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [adverb]
fullfremedlyOE
to envyc1369
to a wish1390
perfectlyc1395
consummately1529
sincerely1583
to the (also a) nail?1611
like a tansy1619
magisterially1625
(up) to the nines (rarely nine)?1719
puffickly1858
quintessentially1866
to the (also a) queen's taste1880
A-OK1961
c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 173 They had good leyser for to route To envye, who might slepe beste.
1653 tr. S. Przypkowski Dissertatio de Pace vii. 36 That contemplation, happy even to envie, awaiteth us in the heavens.
1668 S. Pepys Diary 11 Mar. (1976) IX. 113 Captain Cocke..told me..that the Sollicitor generall doth commend me even to envy.
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