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Reasonless

adjective

Not marked by the use of reason. Synonyms: mindless, senseless. "Reasonless hostility" , "A senseless act"

Not endowed with the capacity to reason.

Having no justifying cause or reason. Synonym: causeless. "A causeless war that never had an aim" , "An apparently arbitrary and reasonless change"

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"Reasonless" Quotes from Famous Books

... this is the memory of the dead preserved with the living, being more firm and honourable than any epitaph. The living know that band which tyeth them to others. By this man is distinguished from the reasonless creatures, and the noble of men from the base sort. For it often falleth out (though we cannot tell how) for the most part, that generositie followeth good birth and parentage."[81] The two members of the Drummond family who attended Lord Mar in his famous hunting-field were James Earl ...

— Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. - Volume I. • Mrs. Thomson

... of spirit. And this blind discontent carried on into the war. While on the one hand a great rush of men poured into the army saying, "Thank God! we can serve our country at last instead of some beastly profiteer," a sourer remnant, blind to the greater issues of the war, clung to the reasonless proposition, "the state is only for the Capitalist. This war is got up by Capitalists. Whatever has ...

— War and the Future • H. G. Wells

... kai aisthaeta]) by bread and wine, does at the same time declare the flesh and blood not to be the [Greek: phainomena kai aisthaeta] so called, but the [Greek: noumena kai auta ta chraemata]. There is therefore no contradiction in the terms, however reasonless the doctrine may be, and however unnecessary the interpretation on which it is pretended. I confess, had I been in Luther's place, I would not have rested so much of my quarrel with the Papists on this point; nor can I agree with our Arminian divines in their ridicule of Transubstantiation. ...

— Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... was a chaos of streets and people and buildings and reasonless going to and fro. I do not remember that I ever struggled very steadily to understand it, or explored it with any but a personal and adventurous intention. Yet in time there has grown up in me a kind of theory of London; I do think I see lines of an ordered structure out of which ...

— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells

Words linked to "Reasonless" : irrational, unreasonable, unmotivated, senseless, causeless