Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not jealous; not suspicious or mistrustful.

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  • adjective Not jealous.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ jealous

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Examples

  • It was an act of our government that reflected the spirit of a people whose geography has made them basically generous in character, optimistic by nature and unjealous of others 'success.

    Around the United States in Twenty Minutes 1956

  • In the not unjealous spirit of rivalry that eventuated, each clung stubbornly to his own theory.

    Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886

  • Even bland, unjealous Paisiello, Maestro di Capella, shook his gentle head when the musician favoured him with a specimen of one of his most thrilling scenas.

    Zanoni Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • If he had accepted the aid of his brothers, during the experimental period of his life, in the loving spirit of confidence in which it was given, he was not less ready to reverse the relations when the time came; the delicacy with which his assistance was rendered, the scrupulous care taken to convey the feeling that his brothers were doing him a continued favor in sharing his good fortune, and their own unjealous acceptance of what they would as freely have given if circumstances had been different, form one of the pleasantest instances of brotherly concord and self-abnegation.

    Washington Irving 2004

  • -- had been led in to see him, his little feet stumbling over each other in happy and unjealous haste.

    Roads from Rome 1901

  • And wouldn't you know it -- that committed, unjealous pulpit minister is a cradle UU -- and perhaps, at his age )the same as mine) would even say, "cradle-to-grave."

    Philocrites: This week at uuworld.org: Raising committed UUs. 2008

  • If he had accepted the aid of his brothers, during the experimental period of his life, in the loving spirit of confidence in which it was given, he was not less ready to reverse the relations when the time came; the delicacy with which his assistance was rendered, the scrupulous care taken to convey the feeling that his brothers were doing him a continued favor in sharing his good fortune, and their own unjealous acceptance of what they would as freely have given if circumstances had been different, form one of the pleasantest instances of brotherly concord and self-abnegation.

    Washington Irving Warner, Charles D 1881

  • If he had accepted the aid of his brothers, during the experimental period of his life, in the loving spirit of confidence in which it was given, he was not less ready to reverse the relations when the time came; the delicacy with which his assistance was rendered, the scrupulous care taken to convey the feeling that his brothers were doing him a continued favor in sharing his good fortune, and their own unjealous acceptance of what they would as freely have given if circumstances had been different, form one of the pleasantest instances of brotherly concord and self-abnegation.

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • If he had accepted the aid of his brothers, during the experimental period of his life, in the loving spirit of confidence in which it was given, he was not less ready to reverse the relations when the time came; the delicacy with which his assistance was rendered, the scrupulous care taken to convey the feeling that his brothers were doing him a continued favor in sharing his good fortune, and their own unjealous acceptance of what they would as freely have given if circumstances had been different, form one of the pleasantest instances of brotherly concord and self-abnegation.

    Washington Irving Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • If he had accepted the aid of his brothers, during the experimental period of his life, in the loving spirit of confidence in which it was given, he was not less ready to reverse the relations when the time came; the delicacy with which his assistance was rendered, the scrupulous care taken to convey the feeling that his brothers were doing him a continued favor in sharing his good fortune, and their own unjealous acceptance of what they would as freely have given if circumstances had been different, form one of the pleasantest instances of brotherly concord and self-abnegation.

    Washington Irving Charles Dudley Warner 1864

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