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Definition of Reasonless

1. Adjective. Not marked by the use of reason. "A senseless act"

2. Adjective. Not endowed with the capacity to reason. "A reasonless brute"

3. Adjective. Having no justifying cause or reason. "An apparently arbitrary and reasonless change"

Definition of Reasonless

1. a. Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind.

Definition of Reasonless

1. Adjective. lacking reason or purpose ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reasonless

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reasonless

reasonableness reasonablenesses reasonably reasoned reasoner reasoners reasonest reasoneth reasoning reasoning(a)

reasoning backward reasoning by elimination reasonings reasonist reasonists reasonless reasonlessly reasons

Literary usage of Reasonless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great by Robert Cochrane (1887)
"That which appeared so shifting, and yet so coherent, while that faculty was passive, when it comes undei cool examination shall appear so reasonless and so ..."

2. The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D. ...: Sometime President of Corpus Christi by Thomas Jackson (1844)
"Now we cannot do justice to any lifeless or reasonless creature, ... A man may be wronged or disgraced in his goods or reasonless creatures, ..."

3. Human Destiny: A Discussion : Do Reason and the Scriptures Teach the Utter by Charles Frederick Hudson, Sylvanus Cobb (1860)
"I have thought it important thus to insist on the freedom of the will and the reasonless nature of guilt, as showing that man may be really guilty and bad. ..."

4. Principles of Teaching High School Pupils by Means of the High School Subjects by Hubert Wilbur Nutt (1922)
"The learner reads the definition, "A demagogue is a person who panders to popular prejudice or seeks to inflame reasonless passions in the advancement of ..."

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