Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not hurtful; wanting the power of doing harm or injury.
Examples
“What a nest of vipers may be crushed at once, or, at least, rendered unhurtful, by depriving the three monsters he names of the aid of such an agent?”
“Whatever the cause, it was clear that Oscar was what Shakespeare called himself, “an unhurtful opposite.””
“O! you hope the duke will return no more, or you imagine me too unhurtful an opposite.”
“Whatever the cause, it was clear that Oscar was what Shakespeare called himself, "an unhurtful opposite.”
“But this unhurtful and harmless kind of worship pleaseth them.”
“He comes nearer the fact in “Measure for Measure,” where the Duke, his other self, is shown to be “an unhurtful opposite” too gentle-kind to remember an injury or punish the offender, and he rings the bell at truth's centre when, in”
“His humor is fast-paced and sophisticated, yet gentle and unhurtful: all in all, a charming and affable comedian.”
“O, you hope the duke will return no more; or you imagine me too unhurtful an opposite.”
“_ O, you hope the Duke will return no more; or 155 you imagine me too unhurtful an opposite.”
Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]
“The $33,000 Mitsubishi iMievs are guaranteed unhurtful to polar bears (since electricity is generated from pixie dust) and can go 100 miles on a charge - but only with the lights off.”
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mollusque O! you hope the duke will return no more, or you imagine me too unhurtful an opposite. But, indeed, I can do you little harm: you'll forswear this again.
--William Shakespeare, 1603, Measure for Measure Oct 4, 2008