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a1653 T. Adams Main Princ. Christian Relig. (1675) 28 This first man Adam, who having but one Commandment at Gods hand,..did notwithstanding most unmindfully, or rather most wilfully break it.

1729 M. Browne Piscatory Eclog. ix. 120 Fowl shall the Air, and Fish the Flood forsake, And Nature her eternal Order break, E'er I, unmindfully, his Praise decline.

1764 Med. Museum III. lxvi. 522 He..forced a little knife with a stag's horn handle, which he had unmindfully put into his mouth, into his throat.

1840 New Sporting Mag. Jan. 57 My heart must grow changed and cold if I ever pass the place where this was done unmindfully.

1874 Sci. Amer. 21 Nov. 321/2 It is well known that a savage will bear pain,..apparently unmindfully, which if inflicted on a refined and cultivated individual would produce death or syncope.

1957 Life 1 July 41/1 As an ugly black funnel filled the sky behind them a group of youngsters unmindfully kept playing.

2002 M. Sipper Machine Nature iv. 72 As adults we are able to walk around effortlessly and unmindfully, perhaps even carrying on a conversation at the same time.