Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Want or absence of reflection; thoughtlessness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Lack of reflection.

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  • noun Lack of reflection or consideration.

Etymologies

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ir- +‎ reflection

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Examples

  • So, with laughter and a continual crack of voices our jay-like crew swung on, swaying and thumping in the strange ecstasy of irreflection, happy to be moving they knew not where, nor greatly why, under the visiting sun, to the sound of murdered music.

    The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays 2004

  • The play was Macbeth — the first actor of the age was there to exert his powers to drug with irreflection the auditors; such a medicine I yearned for, so I entered.

    The Last Man 2003

  • Las Casas replied to this with great benevolence, saying that as he was ready even to shed his blood for them, he had no intention of interfering with their properties except in so far as was necessary to prevent sin against God and their neighbour: he exhorted them to consider matters calmly and not to allow themselves to be carried away by irreflection.

    Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt

  • Consideration of the facts here briefly touched upon should serve to restrain and temper the condemnation that irreflection has too often allowed us to heap exclusively upon them for their share in these great iniquities.

    Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt

  • In his tribulation and irreflection, he drew no line between the present and the past, but simply concluded, that if he saved her too late, he did not save her at all.

    Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien

  • So, with laughter and a continual crack of voices our jay-like crew swung on, swaying and thumping in the strange ecstasy of irreflection, happy to be moving they knew not where, nor greatly why, under the visiting sun, to the sound of murdered music.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • So, with laughter and a continual crack of voices our jay-like crew swung on, swaying and thumping in the strange ecstasy of irreflection, happy to be moving they knew not where, nor greatly why, under the visiting sun, to the sound of murdered music.

    The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy John Galsworthy 1900

  • So, with laughter and a continual crack of voices our jay-like crew swung on, swaying and thumping in the strange ecstasy of irreflection, happy to be moving they knew not where, nor greatly why, under the visiting sun, to the sound of murdered music.

    Inn of Tranquillity John Galsworthy 1900

  • The play was Macbeth -- the first actor of the age was there to exert his powers to drug with irreflection the auditors; such

    II.8 1826

  • The play was Macbeth -- the first actor of the age was there to exert his powers to drug with irreflection the auditors; such a medicine I yearned for, so I entered.

    The Last Man 1826

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