hurtless

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From hurt +‎ -less.

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Adjective[edit]

hurtless (comparative more hurtless, superlative most hurtless)

  1. Not causing hurt; harmless.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. [], London: [] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      Blaming of Fortune, which such troubles threw, / And ioyd to make proofe of her crueltie / On gentle Dame, so hurtlesse, and so trew [...].
    • 2015, Max Freedom Long, The Huna Code in Religions, page 191:
      [] to live as normally as possible while making every effort to learn to live the hurtless, kindly and unselfish life []
  2. (obsolete) Unhurt.

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