unharming

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ harming

Adjective[edit]

unharming (comparative more unharming, superlative most unharming)

  1. Doing no harm.
    • 1883, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson, Emily Brontë[1]:
      From Edgar Linton, as we have seen, Heathcliff's blows fell aside unharming, as the executioner's strokes from a legendary martyr.
    • 1900, Owen Wister, The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories[2]:
      The snow struck the bottle, but the unharming bullet was buried half an inch to the left.