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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Born to no Pride, inheriting no Strife, Nor marrying Discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious thro' his age.
From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Pope, Alexander
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 Burke, Edmund
As a pigment, zinc white may be said to be innoxious.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
I wish I could render the incentives to every other equally innoxious in his case.’
From The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Brontë, Anne
Upon which, with his eyes fixed and frightfully staring, he expired; exhibiting, even after death, a ghastly spectacle of innoxious tyranny.
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