[envyte
app. a misprint for enmyte, enmity. Cf. envy n. ¶ .
| c 1430 Lydg. Story Thebes iii. K iiij, They on Grekes, enuyously gan shoute And of despyte, and grete enuyte Bad hem foles, gone home to her contre. 1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. iii. (1520) 25/2 Antigonus broder unto the kynge was slayne thrugh the envyte of the quene. a 1569 Sqr. Low Degree 392 in Hazl. E.P.P. II. 38 For yf it may be founde in thee, that thou them (de)fame for envyte.] |