Unthinkingness

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a. 1695. Ld. Halifax, Char. Chas. II. (1750), 4. In this kind of Indifference or Unthinkingness,… I will suppose he might pass some considerable part of his Youth.

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1744. Lond. Mag., 27. Men begin to be convinced that Indolence and Unthinkingness, are the greatest Blessings upon Earth.

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1796. Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, I. 229. [He will] never go astray again, in wicked unthinkingness of this great mercy.

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1857. Bagehot, Biog. Stud., 53. The unfeeling unthinkingness of our Home administration.

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a. 1866. J. Grote, Exam. Utilit. Phil., xviii. (1870), 297. To make a state of unthinkingness desirable for the human mind.

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