inconsequentlyadv.
In an inconsequent manner.
1. Without logical sequence; in the way of erroneous inference; inconclusively.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > lack of reasoning, illogicality > [adverb]
unlogically1610
inconsequently1635
illogically1660
bass-ackwardsa1865
alogically1900
bass-ackward1902
backasswards1951
backassward1961
1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God 313 I could not..condemne Maldonat for speaking inconsequently either to the truth it self, or to the Authority of the Romish Church, wherein he lived.
a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) i. 113 How crazily and inconsequently they collect that the humane Soul is nowhere.
1836 W. Hamilton tr. Pascal in Edinb. Rev. Jan. 434 It would argue a mind incorrigibly false, to reason inconsequently on principles so obtrusive.
2. Without sequence or connection of ideas or circumstances; not as a consequence of anything; irrelevantly.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [adverb] > irrelevantly
impertinentlyc1449
unhanginglyc1449
unpertinentlyc1449
vagrantly1547
unconsequently1565
inappositelya1652
unappositely1680
inconsequentially1754
irrelevantly1818
inconsequently1864
out1989
1864 M. B. Smedley Linnet's Trial II. iv. iii. 248 ‘Are you not longing to see Kirkham again?’ asked Brandon rather inconsequently.
1881 H. James Portrait of Lady III. iv. 48 And Edward Rosier looked all round, inconsequently, with his single glass.
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