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inoffensive, a.|ɪnəˈfɛnsɪv|
[in-3. Cf. mod.F. inoffensif (Dict. Acad. 1835).]
1. Doing or causing no harm; harmless, innocuous, unoffending.
1598[implied in inoffensively]. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. vi. 305 Wee dye notwithstanding in harmlesse and inoffensive errors. 1655Fuller Hist. Camb. (1840) 213 An inoffensive man for life and conversation..nothing of viciousness could be charged upon him. a1715Burnet Own Time I. iv. 802 The nation had never known such an inoffensive march of an army. 1790Beattie Moral Sc. i. ii. v. §316 Useful and inoffensive animals have a claim to our tenderness. 1853C. Brontë Villette xxvii. (1876) 305, I could not have tormented a being as inoffensive as a shadow.
2. Not objectionable, not obnoxious or offensive; not offending the senses; not a cause of offence.
1622Peacham Compl. Gent. xi. (1634) 103 A more delightfull and in-offensive recreation. 1667Milton P.L. v. 345 For drink the Grape She crushes, inoffensive moust. 1744Berkeley Siris §9 An inoffensive medicine and agreeable to the stomach. 1876Trans. Clin. Soc. IX. 13 The wound has discharged freely, the discharge being quite healthy and inoffensive. |