inconscient

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He turned heroically, resolved to lay down the law, and his stern eyes encountered hers, so troubling and so untroubled, tempting and yielding—glorified and inconscient.

From The Salamander by Johnson, Owen

There are few sights more ominous than that of a crowd thus observing itself, watching in inconscient suspense for the unknown crisis which its own passions have engendered.

From The Valley of Decision by Wharton, Edith

On Selden's part, no doubt, the wound inflicted was inconscient; he had never guessed her foolish secret; but Lily—Lily must have known!

From House of Mirth by Wharton, Edith

In minerals there are "constant tendencies" which are nothing but obscure wills; what we currently term weight, fluidity, impenetrability, electricity, chemical affinities, are nothing but natural wills or inconscient wills.

From Initiation into Philosophy by Faguet, Émile

She was not yet a woman, by a certain veil of fragility and inconscient shyness, but the child was gone.

From Making Money by Johnson, Owen