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1665.  J. Sergeant, Sure Footing, 49. Unreflecting and unredoubting persons.

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1704.  J. Trapp, Abra-Mulé, II. i. 498. Ill Success Renders a Sultan odious in the Eyes Of th’ unreflecting Vulgar.

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1769.  Junius Lett., iii. (1788), 44. I place them to the account of an honest, unreflecting indignation.

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1848.  R. I. Wilberforce, Doctr. Incarnation, v. 128. The unreflecting simplicity of that early faith.

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1891.  Meredith, One of our Conq., xxviii. She did not reflect;… she was unreflecting, feeling only a beyond and hidden.

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  absol.  1748.  Richardson, Clarissa, II. 281. The censures of the busy and the unreflecting.

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  Hence Unreflectingly adv., -ness.

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1816.  Coleridge, Lay Serm. (Bohn), 308. The habitual unreflectingness, which … may be susceptible of more or less palliation.

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1866.  Geo. Eliot, F. Holt, v. Quite unreflectingly, he drew forth a pair of spectacles.

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