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1709 J. Reynolds Death's Vision x. 72 But Pardon that I thus Unconsciously Accuse? How much more Cruel have I been to Thee?

1779 S. Johnson Milton in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets II. 83 I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously, paid to this great man by his biographers.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. v. 422 The populace of England were unconsciously on the rapid road to protestantism.

1887 W. P. Frith Autobiogr. I. xx. 243 Pretty groups of ladies were to be found..unconsciously forming themselves into very paintable compositions.

1898 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 16 Apr. 935/1 Sigmund Freud announced a while ago that every case of psychoneurosis..had for its predisposing cause some abnormal occurrence in the sexual life before the age of eight years, consciously or unconsciously remembered.

1915 W. Cather Song of Lark i. xvi. 116 Thea did n't mind Ray's travel-lecture expressions. She dodged them, unconsciously, as she did her father's professional palaver.

1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day iii. 51 I still on my churchless Sunday evenings feel a vague depression and unconsciously start singing a hymn or a psalm-tune.

2009 New Yorker 13 Apr. 63/2 Actual class mobility was unappealing to Orwell—unconsciously, of course—because he believed in a mystical revolution.