Definition of "envious"

Fret not thy ſelfe becauſe of euill doers, neither bee thou enuious againſt the workers of iniquitie.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Psalms 37:1

My soul is envious of mine eye.

1827, [John Keble], The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […]

for no man was ever so amorous, as to love a toad; none so envious, as to repine at the condition of the miserable

1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […]

Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch.The spelling has been modernized.

1593, 1896

He to him leapt, and that same envious gage / Of victors glory from him snatcht away.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 39