innoxious
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of innoxious
From the Latin word innoxius, dating back to 1615–25. See in- 3, noxious
Example Sentences
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I am well aware that, from any other than the human point of view, this proceeding is very innoxious.
From Death by Maurice Maeterlinck
All things in this his fulminating bull are not of so innoxious a tendency.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
One independent state is declared incompetent to prescribe to another, so long as that state is innoxious to its neighbours.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
I am sure that the principles predominant in France extend to very many persons, and descriptions of persons, in all countries, who think their innoxious indolence their security.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
The serpents are to be feared; and, on approaching them, it is not easy to decide at the first view whether they belong to a poisonous or innoxious species.
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse
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