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Innoxious   Listen
adjective
Innoxious  adj.  
1.
Free from hurtful qualities or effects; harmless; innocuous. "Innoxious flames."
2.
Free from crime; pure; innocent.





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"Innoxious" Quotes from Famous Books



... called "the masses" as Lincoln, with his homely ways and broad stories. The experiment of universal suffrage must render the waters of political and social life more or less turbid even if they remain innoxious. The Cloaca Maxima can hardly mingle its contents with the stream of the Aqua Claudia, without taking something from its crystal clearness. We need not go so far as one of our well-known politicians has recently gone in saying that no great man can reach the highest ...
— Memoir of John Lothrop Motley, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... sanitarium, sanitOrium. V. be salubrious &c adj.; agree with; assimilate &c 23. Adj. salubrious, salutary, salutiferous^; wholesome; healthy, healthful; sanitary, prophYlactic, benign, bracing, tonic, invigorating, good for, nutritious; hygeian^, hygienic. innoxious^, innocuous, innocent; harmless, uninjurious, uninfectious. sanative &c (remedial) 662; restorative &c (reinstate) 660; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... contrary, we observe the natural defects of aristocracy, we shall find that their influence is comparatively innoxious in the direction of the external affairs of a State. The capital fault of which aristocratic bodies may be accused is that they are more apt to contrive their own advantage than that of the mass of the people. ...
— Democracy In America, Volume 1 (of 2) • Alexis de Tocqueville


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