单词 | unprovoking |
释义 | unprovokingadj. Not giving provocation. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [adjective] > without specific unpleasant qualities undreigha1400 unloathsome1440 ungrievingc1480 inoffensive1622 unprovokinga1658 uncloying1665 ungalling1744 uninvidious1822 unexasperating1855 unirritating1896 a1658 O. Sedgwick Bowels of Tender Mercy (1661) ii. xii. 633 A quiet, peaceable, and unprovoking inoffensive carriage. 1710 W. Fleetwood Serm. preach'd before Lords 7 To..dash against the Stones the innocent and unprovoking Children. 1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. xii. 84 But to hurt a brother..so unprovoking,—and so unresenting;—'tis base. 1821 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 8 Dec. 1375 It is no very unprovoking reflection. 1921 Classical Rev. 35 39/2 The Introduction to Book IV is brief, technical, lucid, unprovoking. 2004 Daily Mail (Nexis) 30 Oct. 36 A massacre..of innocent, unarmed and unprovoking civilians. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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