inconscient
Americanadjective
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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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Youth is bold and inconscient of its danger.
From Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport by Greville, Beatrice Violet Graham
Kate Orme was not without an amused perception of her future husband's point of view; but she could enter into it with the tolerance which allows for the inconscient element in all our judgments.
From Sanctuary by Wharton, Edith
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
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
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 Wharton, Edith
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