1. Not exposed or liable to something. Also ellipt.
1609[?]. Donne, Elegy on Lady Marckham, 35. For, graves our trophies are, and both deaths dust. So, unobnoxious now, she hath buried both.
1667. Milton, P. L., VI. 404. In fight they stood Unwearied, unobnoxious to be pain’d By wound.
1704. Norris, Ideal World, II. iii. 125. But neither the matter, nor yet the form of this division,… are unobnoxious to just exception.
1809–14. Wordsw., Excurs., V. 868. Some, apart, In quarters unobnoxious to such chance.
1862. F. Hall, Hindu Philos. Syst., 50. The soul is immutable, and unobnoxious to error.
2. Not objectionable or offensive.
1678. Lively Oracles, VII. § 9 (1684), 308. Surely the meanest unobnoxious laic … might … be trusted with the reading of those sacred books.
1802. H. Martin, Helen of Glenross, I. 201. Mr. Mulgrave, unobnoxious to any party, was advised to remain.
1858. Times, 3 Dec., 8/6. The Roman Catholic priests are lowly, zealous men…. We want the same class of men for our unobnoxious Christianity [in China].
