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unˈhurtful, a. (un-1 7.)
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. 1 Cor. 15 In vnhurtefull manners, playne, pure, and without all counterfaictyng. 1570Drant Serm. G vij, That..the Wolfe [might] become an vnhurtfull neighbour to the Lambe. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. iii. ii. 175 You imagine me to vnhurtfull an opposite. a1680Butler Charac., Humorist, A Humorist is..some out-lying Whimsie of Bedlam, that being tame and unhurtful is suffered to go at Liberty. 1712Blackmore Creation iv. 175 Whence shoots..the falling star, And flames unhurtful hovering dance in air? 1753Richardson Grandison (1781) III. ix. 62 All that is wished for..is, that she may be made unhurtful. a1806H. K. White Poems (1837) 136 When happy Superstition, gabbling eld, Holds her unhurtful gambols. Hence unˈhurtfully adv., unˈhurtfulness.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. 1 Cor. vi. 15 b, Your vnhurtefulnes shal condemne theyr vnclennes. 1725Pope Let. to Swift 14 Sept., To laugh at others as innocently and as unhurtfully as at ourselves. |