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
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What I'd never had a taste of was the simple inconscient sort that one breathes in like the air….
From Crucial Instances by Edith Wharton
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 Owen Johnson
She was not yet a woman, by a certain veil of fragility and inconscient shyness, but the child was gone.
From Making Money by Owen Johnson
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
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
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