Unreason

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Lack of reason or rationality; unreasonableness; irrationality. uncountable, usually

    "c. 1566, John Knox, The Historie of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland, Book I, London: 1644, Another day the same Frier made another Sermon of the Abbot of Unreason, unto whom, and whose Laws, he compareth Prelats of that age; for they were subject to no Laws, no more than was the Abbot of Unreason."

  2. 2
    the state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding wordnet
  3. 3
    Nonsense; folly; absurdity. uncountable, usually
Verb
  1. 1
    To prove to be unreasonable; disprove by argument. rare, transitive

    "The reason of the unreasonable usage my reason has met with, so unreasons my reason, that I have reason to complain of your beauty :" and how did he enjoy the following flower of composition ! ""

  2. 2
    To apply false logic or think without logic. rare

    "After some trouble I have got the Programme, and now send it on to you ; I beg you to transcribe the first ten pages, in which he reasons, or rather unreasons, about homeopathy, and then send the Programme back to me, as I do not know how to procure another copy."

  3. 3
    To make unreasonable; to deprive of reason. rare

    "Unbelief unreasons a man: so the Apostle joyns them, when he prays to be delivered from unreasonable men; for all men have not faith."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English unreson; equivalent to un- + reason.

Etymology 2

From Middle English unreson; equivalent to un- + reason.

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