Meanings
- not comparableWithout envy.
Buber’s demand that everyone should be constantly available is a crucial one for the utopia of the egalitarian, envyless community.
1970, Schoeck, Helmut, Glenny, Michael, Envy : a theory of social behavior, page 2982 more examples
Every heart-throb of the multitudinous host, inhabiting there as in their primeval paradise, is love for the envyless generosity, which dwells at the center, which resides at the circumference, which is complete in every part, which glows in itself, an ineffable splendor, [...]
1898, Block, Louis James, 1851-, Capriccios, page 113And there was Christmas, when Eva and her cousins — asked in to admire the Haeberles' candlelit tree with its shimmering globes and spun-silver "angels' hair" — stood shyly in the subtly transformed room and gazed at the blazing alien candle glow with envyless appreciation, from courteous, unswayed eyes.
1998, Baer, Edith, A frost in the night : a novel, page 38
Origin
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