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▪ I. unˈreasoning, vbl. n.
(un-1 13.)
a1871De Morgan Budget Parad. (1872) 317 He is..the ablest head at unreasoning,..of all who have tried in our day to attach their names to an error. 1889‘Mark Twain’ Yankee at Crt. K. Arthur xiii, It was the stubborn unreasoning of the time.
▪ II. unˈreasoning, ppl. a.
(un-1 10.)
(a)1751G. West Education lxii, The unreasoning vulgar willingly obey. 1800Coleridge Piccolom. iv. vii, I cannot traffic in the trade of words With that unreasoning sex. 1865Pusey Truth Eng. Ch. 13 The authors..were mostly unsystematic, disjointed, unreasoning. 188319th Cent. May 773 That somewhat unreasoning personage who is called the British Public.
(b)1812L. Hunt in Examiner 11 May 289/2 The caprices of an unreasoning resentment. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. xiv. i. VI. 357 An unthinking and unreasoning impulse of the inward being. 1878E. White Life in Christ (ed. 3) iv. xxvi. 437 There is no influence to which men yield so easily as to unreasoning fear.
Hence unˈreasoningly adv.
1848Mrs. Gaskell Mary Barton xxxii, Job Legh pressed out of court, and Jem followed unreasoningly. 1885N. Amer. Rev. March 194 Most fathers, schoolmen, and divines..have done so most unanimously and most unreasoningly. |