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unreason

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Word definitions for unreason in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "injustice;" 1827, "absense of reason," from un- (1) "not" + reason (n.).\n

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unreason \Un*rea"son\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + reason.] To undo, disprove, or refute by reasoning. [Obs.] To unreason the equity of God's proceedings. --South.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding [syn: irrationality ]

Usage examples of unreason.

He could point to the chief creative minds of the country for generations, as beginning their survey genially, ending venomously, because of an exasperating unreason and scum in the bubble of the scenes, called social, around them.

Jeremy, with a childish unreason, was eager to have an answer to this question.

He looked at Morgaine and saw her face set and pale in that unreason that drove her.

This Universe is not Intelligence and Reason, like the Supernal, but participant in Intelligence and Reason: it stands in need of the harmonizing because it is the meeting ground of Necessity and divine Reason-Necessity pulling towards the lower, towards the unreason which is its own characteristic, while yet the Intellectual Principle remains sovereign over it.

What prizeman in Hypothetics at any of our Colleges of Unreason can compare with some of these machines in their own line?

The reason we didn’t do the same was that the Jevlenese retarded Earth’s development by infiltrating agents to spread irrational belief systems and organize cults based on supersti­tion and unreason.

So we get these cults of unreason flourishing across Jevlen, and we’re at a loss for an effective answer to them.

The reason we didn't do the same was that the Jevlenese retarded Earth's development by infiltrating agents to spread irrational belief systems and organize cults based on superstition and unreason.

The humans' clever imaginations created Unnatural, Unreason ing fears that disrupted the energies within the ley and disturbed Mother's existence, that sent uncontrollable rip ples through the leythium lace and turned her chambers to unpleasant yellows and violent flashes of red.

To admit, as these observers do, that spirits do return, that they give every proof of being the actual friends whom we have lost, and yet to turn a deaf ear to the messages which they send would seem to be pushing caution to the verge of unreason.