adv. [UN-1 11.] Without thought; unreflectingly.

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1717.  Mrs. Centlivre, Cruel Gift, IV. Cardono’s Love unthinkingly obey’d me.

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1768–74.  Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 27. Yet are we still liable unthinkingly to fall into little artifices for working upon the divine affections.

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1829.  Arnold, in Stanley, Life (1844), I. 235. The part which you object to, was not put in unthinkingly.

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1884.  J. Gilmour, Mongols, 222. These phrases are often uttered unthinkingly.

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