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keep the wound green; harbor revenge, harbor vindictive feeling; bear malice; rankle,<br />

rankle in the breast.<br />

Adj. revengeful, vengeful; vindictive, rancorous; pitiless &c 914.1; ruthless, rigorous,<br />

avenging.<br />

unforgiving, unrelenting; inexorable, stony-hearted, implacable; relentless,<br />

remorseless.<br />

aeternum servans sub pectore vulnus [Lat.]; rankling; immitigable.<br />

Phr. manet ciratrix [Lat.], manet alid mente repostum [Lat.]; dies irae dies illa [Lat.]; in<br />

high vengeance there is noble scorn [G.<br />

Eliot]; inhumanum verbum est ultio [Lat.] [Seneca]; malevolus animus abditos dentes<br />

habet [Syrus]; now infidel I have thee on the hip [Merchant of Venice].<br />

920. Jealousy -- N. jealousy, jealousness; jaundiced eye; envious suspicion, suspicion;<br />

green-eyed monster [Othello]; yellows; Juno.<br />

V. be jealous &c adj.; view with jealousy, view with a jealous eye.<br />

Adj. jealous, jealous as a barbary pigeon † ; jaundiced, yellow-eyed, envious, hornmad.<br />

921. Envy -- N. envy; enviousness &c adj.; rivalry; jalousie de milier [Fr.]; illwill, spite.<br />

V. envy, covet, burst with envy.<br />

Adj. envious, invidious, covetous; alieni appetens [Lat.].<br />

Phr. base envy withers at another's joy [Thomson]; caeca invidia est [Lat.] [Livy]; multa<br />

petentibus desunt multa [Lat.] [Horace]; summa petit livor [Lat.] [Ovid].<br />

SECTION IV.<br />

MORAL AFFECTIONS<br />

1. MORAL OBLIGATIONS<br />

922. Right -- N. right; what ought to be, what should be; fitness &c adj.; summum jus<br />

[Lat.].<br />

justice, equity; equitableness &c adj.; propriety; fair play, impartiality, measure for<br />

measure, give and take, lex talionis [Lat.].<br />

Astraea † , Nemesis, Themis.<br />

scales of justice, evenhanded justice, karma; suum cuique [Lat.]; clear stage, fair field<br />

and no favor, level playing field.<br />

morals &c (duty) 926; law &c 963; honor &c (probity) 939; virtue &c 944.<br />

V. be right &c adj.; stand to reason.<br />

see justice done, see one righted, see fair play; do justice to; recompense &c (reward)<br />

973; bold the scales even, give and take; serve one right, put the saddle on the right horse;<br />

give every one his due, give the devil his due; audire alteram partem [Lat.].<br />

deserve &c (be entitled to) 924.<br />

Adj. right, good; just, reasonable; fit &c 924; equal, equable, equatable † ; evenhanded,<br />

fair.<br />

legitimate, justifiable, rightful; as it should be, as it ought to be; lawful &c (permitted)<br />

760, (legal) 963.<br />

deserved &c 924.

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