Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not considering; void of consideration; regardless.

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  • adjective Without consideration; mindless.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ considering

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Examples

  • Here, too, with unconsidering care they were carrying with them

    Calliope 1909

  • Here, too, with unconsidering care they were carrying with them

    The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. Kuno Francke 1892

  • In all these he paints only the one woman, of concentrated, unconsidering passion, ready to sacrifice heaven and defy hell for a guilty man, beloved in spite of religion or reason.

    Lady Byron Vindicated Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 1870

  • In all these he paints only the one woman, of concentrated, unconsidering passion, ready to sacrifice heaven and defy hell for a guilty man, beloved in spite of religion or reason.

    Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

  • He lives without rushing hourly towards suicide, because his soul, with all its noble aspirations and imaginations, is sunk at the bottom of his stomach, and lies torpid there, unaspiring, unimagining, unconsidering, as if it were the vital principle of a mere _four_-footed beaver.

    Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • To-day I was all about St. Paul's, and up at the top like a fool, with Sir Andrew Fountaine and two more; and spent seven shillings for my dinner like a puppy: this is the second time he has served me so; but I will never do it again, though all mankind should persuade me, unconsidering puppies!

    The Journal to Stella Jonathan Swift 1706

  • Think of this, oh thou unconsidering noble youth; lay thy hand upon thy generous heart, and tell it all the fears, all the reasonings of her that loves thee more than life.

    Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister Aphra Behn 1664

  • _ _Aurelia_, help, help me to be reveng'd upon this wretched unconsidering Heart.

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

  • _Sylvia_ absolutely resolved to give herself to that doting fond lover, or rather to sacrifice herself to her revenge, that unconsidering unfortunate, whose passion had exposed him to all the unreasonable effects of it, returned to his own house, wholly transported with his happy success.

    Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister Aphra Behn 1664

  • To-day I was all about St. Paul’s, and up at the top like a fool, with Sir Andrew Fountaine and two more; and spent seven shillings for my dinner like a puppy: this is the second time he has served me so; but I will never do it again, though all mankind should persuade me, unconsidering puppies!

    The Journal to Stella 2003

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