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unoˈffending, ppl. a.
(un-1 10, 5 b.)
1569Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 668, I..sall keip gude rewle and quietnes unoffending aganis the lawis or makand troubill. a1600Grim the Collier of Croydon (1662) 9 Some will count it Vertue in a woman Still to be bound to un⁓offending Silence. a1625Beaum. & Fl. Laws of Candy ii. i, My prayers pull daily blessings on thy head, My un⁓offending child. 1703Pope Statius' Thebais i. 771 Yet why must unoffending Argos feel The vengeance due to this unlucky steel? 1796F. Burney Camilla III. 403 How should I rejoice..to rescue this one poor unoffending..animal from such tyranny! 1828Scott F.M. Perth xix, Who..could have thought of harming a creature so simple, and so unoffending? 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. II. xxx. 253 The councillors were famed for their unoffending respectability. |