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jealousy

[jel-uh-see] / ˈdʒɛl ə si /


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"No. I don't think it's JEALOUSY," said Ethel slowly.

From Peg O' My Heart by Manners, J. Hartley

As the zeal of conjugial love is the chief of zeals, therefore it is called by a new name, JEALOUSY, which is the very type of zeal.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel

I now come to a matter of the greatest possible importance; namely, that great troubler of the married state, that great bane of families, JEALOUSY; and I shall first speak of jealousy in the wife.

From Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. by Cobbett, William




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