1602. Carew, Cornwall, Hh j b (J.). An enuiable mediocritie of fortune.
1779. Burke, Corr. (1844), II. 278. My situation is anything rather than enviable.
1812. G. Chalmers, Dom. Econ. Gt. Brit., 293. The foe never sets his foot on this enviable island.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., III. 3. William was, at this time ,one of the most enviable of human beings.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. § 27. 196. Unlike the enviable ostrich, I cannot shut my eyes to danger when it is near.
Hence Enviableness, rare, the quality or condition of being enviable. Enviably adv., in an enviable manner or degree.
1797. Miss Gunning, Orphans Snowdon, II. 34. Could he have spoken, no doubt he would tell you himself, the enviableness of his situation.
1833. Ht. Martineau, Charmed Sea, iii. 36. The enviableness of her calm state of feeling.
1772. Public Advertiser, 29 Oct., 2/2. The amiable Partner of a pious Personage, who is now enviably situated (Thanks fo some accidental Strokes and Turns of Fortune) on the delightful verdant Meads.
1823. J. Badcock, Dom. Amusem., 140. That enviably brilliant covering.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 380. There was scarcely in all Europe a residence more enviably situated.
