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unreˈflecting, ppl. a.
(un-1 10.)
1665J. Sergeant Sure Footing 49 Unreflecting and unredoubting persons. 1704J. Trapp Abra-Mulé ii. i. 498 Ill Success Renders a Sultan odious in the Eyes Of th' unreflecting Vulgar. 1769Junius Lett. iii. (1788) 44, I place them to the account of an honest, unreflecting indignation. 1848R. I. Wilberforce Doctr. Incarnation v. 128 The unreflecting simplicity of that early faith. 1891Meredith One of our Conq. xxviii, She did not reflect;..she was unreflecting, feeling only a beyond and hidden.
absol.1748Richardson Clarissa II. 281 The censures of the busy and the unreflecting.
Hence unreˈflectingly adv., -ness.
1696J. Sergeant Method to Sci. ii. ii. 131 The Former comes by Experience Unreflectingly; the Later is attain'd by Study and Reflexion. 1816Coleridge Lay Serm. (Bohn) 308 The habitual unreflectingness, which..may be susceptible of more or less palliation. 1854A. G. Henderson tr. Cousin's Philos. of Kant p. lx, Thou wouldst not unreflectingly confer it upon the first comer. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt v, Quite unreflectingly, he drew forth a pair of spectacles. |