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Innoxious

Innoxious \In*nox"ious\, a. [L. innoxius. See In- not, and Noxious.]

  1. Free from hurtful qualities or effects; harmless; innocuous. ``Innoxious flames.''
    --Sir K. Digby.

  2. Free from crime; pure; innocent.
    --Pope. -- In*nox`ious*ly, adv. -- In*nox"ious*ness, n.

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innoxious

a. Having no harmful effect.

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innoxious

adj. having no adverse effect

Usage examples of "innoxious".

Lady Dalrymple and Miss Carteret--they would soon be innoxious cousins to her.

Even common water, that apparently innoxious pabulum, when corrupted by the filth of populous cities, is a deadly and insidious destroyer.

Mohammedans in the civilized life of our days they are as innoxious as any other mediaeval dogmatic system that counts its millions of adherents among ourselves.

So much that was heathen, so much that was bad, was mixed up with what might seem to be simple credulity, and the harmless folk-customs of some grandam tradition and immemorial usage, a song or a country dance mayhap, innocent enough on the surface, and even pleasing, so often were but the cloak and the mask for something devilish and obscene, that the Church deemed it necessary to forbid and proscribe the whole superstition even when it manifested itself in modest fashion and seemed guileless, innoxious, and of no account.

Lady Dalrymple and Miss Carteretthey would soon be innoxious cousins to her.