Unpainful

a. [UN-¹ 7.]

  † 1.  Not subject to pain. Obs.^–1

c. 1425[?].  Lucidarie (Fr. Schmitt, 1909), 21. Aftir his owne kynde, he was unpayneful & undeedly.

  2.  Not causing or involving pain or discomfort.

1570.  Levins, Manip., 186. Vnpaynful, immolestus.

1628.  Feltham, Resolves, II. lxxxii. 236. If we owe a Retribution for vnpainefull Courtesies.

1690.  Locke, Hum. Und., II. iv. § 4. That being generally call’d … soft, which changes the Situation of its parts upon an easie and unpainful touch.

1713.  Guardian, No. 82. Those who make an honest man a visit … to make his following year unpainful.

1758.  J. S., Le Dran’s Observ. Surg. (1771), 95. The small Remainder of the Tumour was unpainful.

1823.  J. Wilson, Trials Marg. Lyndsay, ix. 67. The Lyndsays would either be forgotten, or thought on with that unpainful sympathy which is all the poor can afford or expect, but which, as in this case, often yields the fairest fruits of charity and love.

1851.  Hawthorne, Twice-told T., II. vi. 99. A sympathy with the young and gay; an unpainful interest in the business of others.

  3.  Marked or characterized by absence of pain.

1861.  Mrs. Jenkin, Who Breaks—Pays, II. xxiii. 261. Yes; the first unpainful feeling I have had for three quarters of a year, was when I caught sight of you in San Lorenzo.