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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It enables you to discover that riches and titles do not confer merit; you think comparatively little of them; and, as far as relates to you, at any rate, their insolence is innoxious.
From Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. by Cobbett, William
Neat cattle will touch nothing that is not wholesome in its nature; nothing that is not wholly innoxious.
From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by Cobbett, William
To other good attributes of pigments, it would be well if we could in all cases add the property of being innoxious.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.
From Persuasion by Austen, Jane
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 Gosse, Philip Henry
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