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  • adjective Without venom.

Etymologies

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venom +‎ -less

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Examples

  • It latched onto the mage's arm with its venomless fangs and quickly wrapped her head and torso in its crushing coils.

    Chainer's Torment Mcgough, Scott 2002

  • The snake wrapped its twelve-foot-long body around the angel's wings and torso and sank its venomless fangs into her sword arm.

    Chainer's Torment Mcgough, Scott 2002

  • I was entirely venomless, sedated as I was by painkillers, Bit I managed (accidentally, I swear) to fatally insult Sting.

    Don't Stand So Close To Me '86, 12'' 1986

  • I was entirely venomless, sedated as I was by painkillers, Bit I managed (accidentally, I swear) to fatally insult Sting.

    Don't Stand So Close To Me '86, 7'' 1986

  • I was entirely venomless, sedated as I was by painkillers, Bit I managed (accidentally, I swear) to fatally insult Sting.

    Don't Stand So Close To Me, 7'' 1980

  • On recovering his senses, that truth-telling and vow-observing ascetic, burning with wrath, exclaimed, 'Since thou hast made a powerless mock snake to frighten me, thou shalt be turned even into a venomless serpent thyself by my curse.'

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • "It is venomless as the bill of the turtle-dove," she exclaimed, with the importance of an oracle, looking up at her mistress.

    The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century George Henry Miles

  • On recovering his senses, that truth-telling and vow-observing ascetic, burning with wrath, exclaimed, 'Since thou hast made a powerless mock snake to frighten me, thou shalt be turned even into a venomless serpent thyself by my curse.'

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • I may have shown, to a wish of having the sweet assurance that a scion of Hers would perish like a dog, when in reality I hoped to find the weapon venomless. "

    The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century George Henry Miles

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