indeliberate

[in-di-lib-er-it]

adjective

1. done without care; special planning or deliberation; unintentional.

Other Word Forms

• indeliberately adverb
• indeliberateness noun
• indeliberation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of indeliberate¹

First recorded in 1610–20; in- ³ + deliberate

Example Sentences

It is particularly the latter portion of Ramon y Cajal's theory, with regard to attention and the more or less voluntary though unconscious and usually indeliberate control of blood supply to various portions of the brain, that is of special interest.

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Some of the phases of indeliberate psychotherapy, however, are even more interesting than this chapter of the history of genuine and deliberate psycho-therapeutics.

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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.

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A vow to die is null, because death is a necessity; a vow to avoid venial sin, deliberate and indeliberate, is null, because it is impossible without a special privilege from God to keep such a vow; a vow that one's child shall enter religion is also null, because one has no power over that which depends on the will of another.

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Aversions and antipathies for others usually are either indeliberate, or have to do with what are real or fancied defects in others.

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