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(a) 1751. G. West, Education, lxii. The unreasoning vulgar willingly obey.
1800. Coleridge, Piccolom., IV. vii. I cannot traffic in the trade of words with that unreasoning sex.
1865. Pusey, Truth Eng. Ch., 13. The authors … were mostly unsystematic, disjointed, unreasoning.
1883. 19th Cent., May, 773. That somewhat unreasoning personage who is called the British Public.
(b) 1812. L. Hunt, in Examiner, 11 May, 289/2. The caprices of an unreasoning resentment.
1855. Milman, Lat. Chr., XIV. i. VI. 357. An unthinking and unreasoning impulse of the inward being.
1878. E. White, Life in Christ (ed. 3), IV. xxvi. 437. There is no influence to which men yield so easily as to unreasoning fear.
Hence Unreasoningly adv.
1848. Mrs. Gaskell, Mary Barton, xxxii. Job Legh pressed out of court, and Jem followed unreasoningly.
1885. N. Amer. Rev., March, 194. Most fathers, schoolmen, and divines … have done so most unanimously and most unreasoningly.
