a. (UN-1 7.)
1866. G. Macdonald, Ann. Q. Neighb., xxviii. Instances of quiet unselfconscious faith.
1834. Ruskin, Fors Clav., xcvi. 286. One who has in some signal … unself-conscious way done her duty.
1899. Stopf. Brooke, Eng. Lit., 146. This poem … belongs to the joyous, unself-conscious time.
So Unselfconsciousness.
Also, in recent use (1903–), unselfconsciously.
1838. J. Sterling, Ess., etc. (1848), I. 199. One other great form of poetry in which self-consciousness projects itself into external figures, and appears as unself-consciousness.
1894. Lucy H. M. Soulsby, Home Rule, 32. It may be urged that theatricals teach unself-consciousness, but this form of unself-consciousness is worth very little.
19[?]. Evelyn Quinlan, The Spirit Asleep, 236–7. Close association with Hadley had lately blunted his speech—but now he was expressing himself unselfconsciously in the language of other contacts.
