Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the qualities of an anodyne.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Anodyne.
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- adjective
anodyne
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Examples
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His companions on this journey, as on so many others, were two books — one being the anodynous Camoens, the other a volume consisting of the Bible, Shakespeare and Euclid bound together, which looked, with its three large clasps, like a congested Church Service.
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The cold no more irked him, but seemed somehow strangely anodynous.
The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Louis Joseph Vance 1906
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The authority of the sea and the tropics, the mystery that attends unknown sails, and the prestige of drifting music on moonlit waters gave it an anodynous charm.
Cabbages and Kings 1904
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But before beginning the anodynous "Wormwood," she launched into another high-voltage eulogy of Angelica's brother.
No. 13 Washington Square Leroy Scott 1902
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His companions on this journey, as on so many others, were two books -- one being the anodynous Camoens, the other
The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897
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The authority of the sea and the tropics, the mystery that attends unknown sails, and the prestige of drifting music on moonlit waters gave it an anodynous charm.
Cabbages and Kings O. Henry 1886
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His companions on this journey, as on so many others, were two books ” one being the anodynous Camoens, the other a volume consisting of the Bible, Shakespeare and Euclid bound together, which looked, with its three large clasps, like a congested Church Service.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906
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