indeliberate
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- indeliberately adverb
- indeliberateness noun
- indeliberation noun
Etymology
Origin of indeliberate
First recorded in 1610–20; in- 3 + deliberate
Example Sentences
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These types of human expression are easy to control, and the internal effect of each is soon felt where there is deliberate, or indeliberate, perseverance in its maintenance.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
Evolution prior to the advent of man was an unconscious and therefore indeliberate adaptation of function to environment through the survival of the fittest and the corresponding destruction of the less fit.
From Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Kelly, Edmond
Some of the phases of indeliberate psychotherapy, however, are even more interesting than this chapter of the history of genuine and deliberate psycho-therapeutics.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
The motions I speak of are entirely indeliberate, even in the machine of man.
From The Existence of God by Morley, Henry
What is beyond all question is, that there are in beasts a prodigious number of motions entirely indeliberate, and which yet are performed according to the nicest rules of mechanics.
From The Existence of God by Morley, Henry
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