Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an unreasoning manner; without reasoning or reflection.

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  • adverb Without reasoning; blindly, thoughtlessly.

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  • adverb in an unreasoning visceral manner

Etymologies

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unreasoning +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Well, now I think it is equally and similarly unreasoningly weak that homosexuals would consider McClurkin a threat to their gay lifestyles.

    Obama At MTV/MySpace Forum: "I Am Disturbed" By Some Of McClurkin's Views 2009

  • I always thought it was unreasoningly weak that heterosexuals would consider gay marriage a threat to their hetero lifestyles.

    Obama At MTV/MySpace Forum: "I Am Disturbed" By Some Of McClurkin's Views 2009

  • But this kind of response - constructive empathy towards those who hate and unreasoningly attack - seems deeply characteristic of the finest of Catholicism's ethical stances.

    Hullabaloo 2008

  • And yet, standing at the periphery of all these marvels, like a bad fairy in a child's nursery tale, is the malignant presence of Jinx Muehlenberg, whose role in the lives of the Wong family is persistent and unreasoningly evil.

    Ursula, Under by Ingrid Hill: Questions 2004

  • He was himself, and in him, in the personality flowing from him, she was unreasoningly content.

    Main Street 2004

  • For a second she unreasoningly wanted to avoid him, but she kept on, and she serenely talked about God, whose voice, Hugh asserted, made the humming in the telegraph wires.

    Main Street 2004

  • Some had come at Ivga's incoherent cries; others had deserted the walls in fear of the onsweeping hordes out of the desert, fleeing unreasoningly toward the center of the city.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • He could not tell much about their features and was unreasoningly glad that he could not.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Some had come at Ivga's incoherent cries; others had deserted the walls in fear of the onsweeping hordes out of the desert, fleeing unreasoningly toward the center of the city.

    The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • “Not easy, if you start reflecting, waiting, estimating your value, appraising yourself, I mean; but to give oneself unreasoningly is very easy.”

    Fathers and Sons 2003

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