Meaning of absit invidia | Babel Free

Definitions

Literally, "may envy be lacking (from my words)".

Examples

“1656 (N.S.), George Davenport, The Letters of George Davenport, 1651-1677 2011 publication I long as old Eli did (verbo absit invidia) to hear⟳ what is become⟳ of the ark; but fear I shall not hear⟳ what I desire, and my answer⟳ shall be with the daughter in law translata est gloria Dei de—. Comment⟳: "Translata est gloria Dei de ..." is a slight paraphrase from 1 Samuel 4:22.”

“What most evidently prevailed, absit invidia, and what betrayed her into all the Chesterfieldian indecorums of laughter, was his addressing her in Irish.”

“I have⟳ done with the Oxford Bacons : only let⟳ me add⟳, that those of Cambridge, father and son, Nicholas and Francis, the one of Bene't, and the other of Trinity-College, do hold⟳ (absit invidia ! ) the scales of desert, even against all of their name⟳ in all of the world besides.”

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