a. (UN-1 7.)
1549. Coverdale, etc., Erasm. Par. 1 Cor. 15. In vnhurtefull manners, playne, pure, and without all counterfaictyng.
1570. Drant, Serm., G vij. That … the Wolfe [might] become an vnhurtfull neighbour to the Lambe.
1603. Shaks., Meas. for M., III. ii. 175. You imagine me to vnhurtfull an opposite.
a. 1680. Butler, Charac., Humorist. A Humorist is … some out-lying Whimsie of Bedlam, that being tame and unhurtful is suffered to go at Liberty.
1712. Blackmore, Creation, IV. 175. Whence shoots … the falling star, And flames unhurtful hovering dance in air?
1753. Richardson, Grandison (1781), III. ix. 62. All that is wished for … is, that she may be made unhurtful.
a. 1806. H. K. White, Poems (1837), 136. When happy Superstition, gabbling eld, Holds her unhurtful gambols.
Hence Unhurtfully adv., Unhurtfulness.
1549. Coverdale, etc., Erasm. Par. 1 Cor. vi. 15 b. Your vnhurtefulnes shal condemne theyr vnclennes.
1725. Pope, Lett. to Swift, 14 Sept. To laugh at others as innocently and as unhurtfully as at ourselves.
