Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not hurtful; wanting the power of doing harm or injury.
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Examples
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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?
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O, you hope the duke will return no more; or you imagine me too unhurtful an opposite.
Measure for Measure 2004
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Whatever the cause, it was clear that Oscar was what Shakespeare called himself, “an unhurtful opposite.”
Oscar Wilde Harris, Frank 1916
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O! you hope the duke will return no more, or you imagine me too unhurtful an opposite.
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Whatever the cause, it was clear that Oscar was what Shakespeare called himself, "an unhurtful opposite."
Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions Harris, Frank 1910
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But this unhurtful and harmless kind of worship pleaseth them.
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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
The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909
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His humor is fast-paced and sophisticated, yet gentle and unhurtful: all in all, a charming and affable comedian.
Sierra Sun - Top Stories Staff Writer 2010
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O, you hope the duke will return no more; or you imagine me too unhurtful an opposite.
Measure for Measure 1604
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_ 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.] William Shakespeare 1590
mollusque commented on the word unhurtful
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
October 4, 2008