a. (UN-1 7.)
1656. Cowley, Pindar. Odes, 2nd Olympique, x. Fortune’s free gifts as freely to impart With an Unenvious hand, and an unbounded Heart.
1746. Akenside, Hymn to Naiads, 67. You too, O Nymphs, and your unenvious aid The rural powers confess.
1754. Secker, Serm. (1771), xi. 287. We shall be far surer of finding these upright, unenvious,… compassionate, than others, who have not equal inducements.
1838. Lytton, Alice, V. iii. Caroline gazed with honest but not unenvious admiration at the fairy form.
1881. Fortn. Rev., Feb., 199. The only unenvious people in Europe.
So Unenviously adv.
1896. Daily News, 13 June, 5/6. Though the naval architects may look never so unenviously at the developement of the German fleet.
