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  • adjective Not envying.

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un- +‎ envying

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Examples

  • Eugenia too, caught by his eccentricity, was powerfully impelled to watch and admire him; and not the less, in the unenvying innocency of her heart, for his evident predilection in favour of her cousin.

    Camilla 2008

  • And all unenvying shared what all in peace possessed.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • And there they who have always dwelt in the sunny highlands of the true Canaan, gather round them, and call them, not unenvying, perhaps, their experience, 'The men that have crossed.'

    Expositions of Holy Scripture Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • In the absence of these old-fashioned helps, he was content that his own unassisted efforts should gain for him a certificate of capability to the world, and that the choice reputation which he thus earned should, with his own qualities, bring round him the unenvying love of a host of friends.

    Charles Lamb Cornwall, Barry 1866

  • And then, like good, confidential, unenvying friends as they were, they exchanged papers and gave each other a sight of their work.

    Ishmael In the Depths Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859

  • He had himself ridden without overcoat through the chill months of winter; but all these things he had borne as the traveller bears a storm on the way to his home; and it was beautiful to see the unenvying, frank, simple pleasure which he seemed to feel in the elegant and abundant home of his brother, and in the thousand appliances of hospitable comfort by which he was surrounded.

    Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. In Two Volumes. Vol. II 1856

  • Not merely daring and endurance but better still temper, self-restraint, fairness, honour, unenvying approbation of another's success and all that give and take of life which stands a man in good stead when he goes forth into the world.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Paul Haywood 2012

  • In the absence of these old-fashioned helps, he was content that his own unassisted efforts should gain for him a certificate of capability to the world, and that the choice reputation which he thus earned should, with his own qualities, bring round him the unenvying love of a host of friends.

    Charles Lamb Barry Cornwall 1830

  • Eugenia too, caught by his eccentricity, was powerfully impelled to watch and admire him; and not the less, in the unenvying innocency of her heart, for his evident predilection in favour of her cousin.

    Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 1796

  • Contemplate on one hand, the unenvying, the benevolent friend of mankind.

    Sermons on Prevalent Errors, and Vices and on Various Other Topics Georg Joachim Zollikofer 1812

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