unenvious
adjEtymology From un- + envious.
1
Not envious.
- I am as sure as if I had omniscient sight into the depths of his good heart that he has distinct and unenvious joy in every pleasure that he sees other people taking.1873, Helen Hunt Jackson, Bits About Home Matters:
- Eleanor's sweet eyes shone so kindly on her successful rival, and she showed so frank and unenvious an admiration of Sylvia's wit and learning, displayed perhaps a trifle ostentatiously by that young lady in the ensuing conversation with Mrs. Draper, that Sylvia had a fresh, healing impulse of shame for her own recently acquired attitude of triumphing hostility towards the world.1915, Dorothy Canfield, The Bent Twig:
- Derived terms
- unenviously, unenviousness