infelonious

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ felonious.

Adjective

infelonious (comparative more infelonious, superlative most infelonious)

1. Not felonious, malignant, or criminal.

   Synonym: unfelonious

   • 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda:

     Though never even as a child thoughtlessly cruel, nay, delighting to rescue drowning insects and watch their recovery, there was a disagreeable silent remembrance of her having strangled her sister's canary-bird in a final fit of exasperation at its shrill singing which had again and again jarringly interrupted her own... the thought of that infelonious murder had always made her wince.

References

• “infelonious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.