15[?]. [see UNDELIVERED ppl. a.2].
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T., 91 b. Let not worldlings iudge thee inconstant, or vndeliberate in thy choyse.
1753. Richardson, Grandison (1781), V. xxxviii. 237. It was not a request made on undeliberate motives.
1874. Lowell, Agassiz, III. i. With no pedant blindness to the worth Of undeliberate mirth.
1876. Ruskin, Fors Clav., lxviii. 271. The difference between deliberate and undeliberate heartlessness … is for God to judge.
Hence Undeliberateness.
1817. Coleridge, Biog. Lit. (1907), II. 41. With due allowances for the undeliberateness, and less connected train, of thinking natural and proper to conversation.
