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Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers
Section III. Sympathetic Affections
4. Retrospective Sympathetic Affections

920. Jealousy.

   NOUN:JEALOUSY, jealousness; jaundiced eye; distrust, mistrust, misdoubt, heartburn; envy [See Envy]; doubt, envious suspicion, suspicion; “greeneyed monster” [Othello]; yellows; Juno.
   VERB:BE JEALOUS &c. adj.; view with jealousy, view with a jealous eye, view with a jaundiced eye; grudge, begrudge.
  doubt, distrust, mistrust, suspect, misdoubt, heartburn [obs.]; jealouse [obs. or Scot. & dial. Eng.].
   ADJECTIVE:JEALOUS, jealous as a Barbary pigeon; jaundiced, yellow-eyed, envious; beside oneself with -jealousy, – envy.
   QUOTATIONS:
  1. Jealousy is cruel as the grave.—Bible
  2. In jealousy there is more self-love than love.—La Rochefoucauld
  3. For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.—Byron
  4. The injur’d lover’s hell.—Paradise Lost