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Unreason
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- 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 the state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding wordnet
- 3 Nonsense; folly; absurdity. uncountable, usually
- 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 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 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
From Middle English unreson; equivalent to un- + reason.
From Middle English unreson; equivalent to un- + reason.
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