adv. [f. prec.] In an unconscious manner; without conscious action or effort.
1779. Johnson, L. P., Milton, Wks. II. 119. I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously, paid to this great man by his biographers.
1813. Shelley, Q. Mab, III. 234. Man, like these passive things, Thy will unconsciously fulfilleth.
1856. Froude, Hist. Eng. (1858), I. v. 422. The populace of England were unconsciously on the rapid road to protestantism.
1887. W. P. Frith, Autobiog., I. xx. 243. Pretty groups of ladies were to be found … unconsciously forming themselves into very paintable compositions.
