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unˈmindful, a.
[un-1 7.]
Not mindful; careless, heedless: a. Const. of.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. xxxvii. 6 Be thou not vnmyndeful of hym in thi werkis. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xiii. 47 Religious men..ar vnmyndfull of thair professioun. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 56 Owre predicessoures were not vtterlye vnmyndefull of these benefites. 1631Gouge God's Arrows ii. Ep. Ded., Can I then be unmindfull of her? 1663Bp. Patrick Parab. Pilgr. xxx, When you find them so un⁓mindful of themselves. 1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 16 One so sollicitous about other Men's Healths, cannot be unmindful of his own. 1760–2Goldsm. Cit. W. lix, Every person was willing to save himself, unmindful of others. 1821Shelley Epipsych. 302 At her silver voice came Death and Life, Unmindful each of their accustomed strife. 1874J. Baldw. Brown Higher Life p. viii, Unmindful of the large blessing which intellectual culture and political activity bring in their train.
b. With inf. or clause.
1615Sir W. Mure Misc. Poems xiv. 10 Heiping wp treassour wnmyndfull quho lent it. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 323 He caused Cassius Longinus..to be slain; unmindfull that Chærea (the man that did the deed) was so called. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. viii. 125 She seeks the weedy Pools,..Careless of Night, unmindful to return. a1750A. Hill Picture of Love 173 Unmindful, that of old they veil'd his face.
c. Attrib. or without const. rare.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, iv. iv. 446 Dull vnmindfull Villaine, Why stay'st thou here? 1598Florio, Smemorato,..a forgetfull, obliuious, or vnmindfull man. 1608Beaum. & Fl. Four Plays in One Wks. 1912 X. 359 Hear me,..And take my wrongs into thy hands, thou justice Done by unmindful man, unmerciful. 1796Scott Wild Huntsman xxxix, His courser rooted to the ground, The quickening spur unmindful bears.
Hence unˈmindfulness; also unˈmindfully adv. (1755 Scott, and later Dicts.).
1567Allen Def. Priesthood Pref., Loue of sinne,..and vnmyndfulnes of saluation. 1631Mabbe Celestina xii. 132 Of my much mindfulnesse for this nights meeting, and your much unmindfulnesse and extreme carelesnesse. a1680Charnock Attrib. God (1834) I. 507 Why should we forget it? yea, what a shame is our unmindfulness of it. |