ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1481. Cov. Leet Bk. 494. That, his highnes vnoffended, we here … may procede amonges our-self to the determinacion therin.
1598. Florio, Inoffeso, vnoffended, vntoucht, vnwrongd.
1633. Bp. Hall, Occas. Medit., lii. 124. The Bee stings … when she is provoked; these draw blood, unoffended, and sting for their owne pleasure.
1673. [R. Leigh], Transp. Reh., 84. Reverence … might perhaps occasion more sport then a man … could brook unoffended.
1749. Johnson, Irene, V. ii. This gen’ral calm Is sure the smile of unoffended heav’n.
1782. V. Knox, Ess., c. (1819), II. 218. It is the common people,… unoffended and unoffending, who chiefly suffer in the evil consequences.
1809. Malkin, Gil Blas, VII. v. ¶ 4. They, with unoffended nostrils, were engaged in general conversation, though they dined individually.
Hence Unoffendedly adv.
1856. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., IV. V. xx. § 28. They were both of them … to behold unoffendedly all that was upon the earth.
