reason
noun
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc..
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I clench up my fists and make a sound that sounds like awwghgh which tells Cillian that I just can’t put up with his nonreason not for one second longer.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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