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irreflective, a.|ɪrɪˈflɛktɪv|
[ir-2: cf. F. irréfléchi.]
Unreflecting, unthinking.
1833Whewell Bridgewater Treat. (1853) 230 The gratification of our irreflective impulses. 1853De Quincey Autobiog. Sk. Wks. I. 357 The careless, irreflective mind of childhood.
Hence irreˈflectively adv.; irreˈflectiveness.
1842De Quincey Philos. Herodotus Wks. 1858 IX. 166 The reason is palpable: it was the ignorance of irreflectiveness. 1858― Wks. (1862) VII. 186 note, Irreflectively he had allowed himself to anticipate..an impression. 1861Temple Bar Mag. I. 341 Sometimes, when irreflectively irate, threatening to leave it away to strangers. 1899Atlantic Monthly May 623 We read them a moral lecture on their irreflectiveness. |