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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I mean: that he's an inconscient instrument of goodness, as it were?
From Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton
There are few sights more ominous than that of a crowd thus observing itself, watching in inconscient suspense for the unknown crisis which its own passions have engendered.
From The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton
For what were these ancient manipulators of ideas, prestidigitators of a vanished world of thought, but the forbears of the long line of theorists of whom Fulvia was the last inconscient mouthpiece?
From The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton
On Selden's part, no doubt, the wound inflicted was inconscient; he had never guessed her foolish secret; but Lily—Lily must have known!
From House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Youth is bold and inconscient of its danger.
From Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport by Beatrice Violet Graham Greville
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