jealouse

Adjective

jealous (comparative jealouser or more jealous, superlative jealousest or most jealous)

1. Suspecting rivalry in love; troubled by worries that one might have been replaced in someone's affections; suspicious of a lover's or spouse's fidelity.
   • jealous lover
2. Protective; zealously guarding; careful in the protection of something (or someone) one has or appreciates, especially one's spouse or lover.
   • Thou ſhalt not bow downe thy ſelfe to them, nor ſerue them: For I the Lord thy God am a iealous God, viſiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children, vnto the thirde and fourth generation of them that hate me:1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 20:5, column 2
3. Envious; feeling resentful or angered toward someone for a perceived advantage or success, material or otherwise.
   • be jealous of someone/something
4. Suspicious; apprehensive.
   • I began my fence or wall; which, being still jealous of my being attacked by somebody, I resolved to make very thick and strong.1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC

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Verb

jalouse (third-person singular simple present jalouses, present participle jalousing, simple past and past participle jaloused)

1. (Scotland, transitive) To suspect.
   • Now the mention of the Skerburnfoot brought back to him only the thought of Ailie, and not of the witch wife, her mother. So he jaloused no ill, for at the best he was slow in the uptake.
     […]
     'Ford!' cried John, in scorn. 'There'll be nae ford for you the nicht unless it was the ford o' the river...1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
2. (archaic, transitive) To be jealous of.
   • When my two sisters (these two bitches, O Commander of the Faithful!) saw me by the side of my young lover they jaloused me on his account and were wroth and plotted mischief against me.1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 18