ppl. a. (UN-1 10, 5 b.)
1569. Reg. Privy Council Scot., I. 668. I … sall keip gude rewle and quietnes unoffending aganis the lawis or makand troubill.
a. 1600. Grim the Collier of Croydon (1662), 9. Some will count it Vertue in a woman Still to be bound to unoffending Silence.
a. 1625. Beaum. & Fl., Laws of Candy, II. i. My prayers pull daily blessings on thy head, My unoffending child.
1703. Pope, Statius’ Thebais, I. 771. Yet why must unoffending Argos feel The vengeance due to this unlucky steel?
1796. Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, III. 403. How should I rejoice … to rescue this one poor unoffending … animal from such tyranny!
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, xix. Who … could have thought of harming a creature so simple, and so unoffending?
1876. Bancroft, Hist. U.S., II. xxx. 253. The councillors were famed for their unoffending respectability.
