inconscient

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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

What I'd never had a taste of was the simple inconscient sort that one breathes in like the air….

From Crucial Instances 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

I mean: that he's an inconscient instrument of goodness, as it were?

From Tales of Men and Ghosts by Wharton, Edith

For what were these ancient manipulators of ideas, prestidigitators of a vanished world of thought, but the forbears of the long line of theorists of whom Fulvia was the last inconscient mouthpiece?

From The Valley of Decision by Wharton, Edith