irreflective

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Now, my life is rounded; it began with the natural irreflective happiness of childhood, it will close in the reasoned tranquillity of the mature mind. 

From The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by Gissing, George

At such moments he had an irreflective courage, which prompted him to utter what he thought without regard to anything but the common civilities of life.

From The Crown of Life by Gissing, George

The Passage in No. 7 of the Apology where he describes the State of the World as wholly irreflective of its Creator unless you turn—to Popery—is very grand.

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II by Wright, William Aldis

Amid the irreflective actors in that rapidly moving show, so entirely immersed in it superficial as it is that they have no feeling of themselves, he becomes self-conscious.

From Plato and Platonism by Pater, Walter

And from this day I was an altered creature, never again relapsing into the careless, irreflective mind of childhood.

From Autobiographical Sketches by De Quincey, Thomas