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English
Etymology
From in- + felonious.
Adjective
infelonious (comparative more infelonious, superlative most infelonious)
- 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.
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