inconscient
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of inconscient
1880–85; in- 3 + conscient conscious (< French conscient ) < Latin conscient-, stem of consciēns, present participle of conscīre, originally, to have on one's conscience, equivalent to con- con- + scīre to know
Example Sentences
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She was not yet a woman, by a certain veil of fragility and inconscient shyness, but the child was gone.
From Making Money by Johnson, Owen
What I'd never had a taste of was the simple inconscient sort that one breathes in like the air….
From Crucial Instances by Wharton, Edith
You say l’artiste inconscient set off to travel: you do not divide me right.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew
I mean: that he's an inconscient instrument of goodness, as it were?
From Tales of Men and Ghosts by Wharton, Edith
He turned heroically, resolved to lay down the law, and his stern eyes encountered hers, so troubling and so untroubled, tempting and yielding—glorified and inconscient.
From The Salamander by Johnson, Owen
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