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

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

From Tales of Men and Ghosts by Wharton, Edith

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

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

Kate Orme was not without an amused perception of her future husband's point of view; but she could enter into it with the tolerance which allows for the inconscient element in all our judgments.

From Sanctuary by Wharton, Edith