Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IN-JU'RI-OUS
IN-JU'RI-OUS, a. [L. injurius; Fr. injurieux.]
- Wrongful; unjust; hurtful to the rights of another. That which impairs rights or prevents the enjoyment of them, is injurious.
- Hurtful to the person or health. Violence is injurious to the person, as intemperance is to the health.
- Affecting with damage or loss. Indolence is injurious to property.
- Mischievous; hurtful; as, the injurious consequences of sin or folly.
- Lessening or tarnishing reputation. The very suspicion of cowardice is injurious to a soldier's character.
- Detractory; contumelious; hurting reputation; as, obscure hints as well as open detraction, are sometimes injurious to reputation.
- In general, whatever gives pain to the body or mind, whatever impairs or destroys property or rights, whatever tarnishes reputation, whatever disturbs happiness, whatever retards prosperity or defeats the success of a good cause, is deemed injurious.
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