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Harmlessness

Harmless \Harm"less\ (h[aum]rm"l[e^]s), a.

  1. Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless.

  2. Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive. `` The harmless deer.''
    --Drayton

    Syn: Innocent; innoxious; innocuous; inoffensive; unoffending; unhurt; uninjured; unharmed.
    -- Harm"less*ly, adv.- Harm"less*ness, n.

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harmlessness

n. The characteristic of being harmless; the absence of harm.

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Harmlessness

Harmlessness is the second studio album by emo band The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die. It was announced on August 4, 2015, and was released on September 25. The title of the album is a play on the name of the band's first EP, Formlessness.

Usage examples of "harmlessness".

The men appear to have been chiefly colonial rebels, and not Boers of the backveld, and to that happy chance it may be that the comparative harmlessness of their fire was due.

Nazarene told us, by rascals of a low sort - not real Bedouins, men whom we might frighten into harmlessness, but from whom there was no willing hospitality to be expected.

He was to seem marginally retarded, providing an apparency of harmlessness.

It was then turned over to Nuel bioengineers working for a firm I control, to make certain of its harmlessness.

The good father had the wisdom of the serpent, with the harmlessness of the dove.