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Meanings of unreason in English

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The state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding.

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Usage of unreason in English
1
And anomalies accustom the mind to the idea of unreason and untruth.
All Things Considered
2
And everything that I saw bore the stamp of stupidity and unreason.
Savva and the Life of Man: Two plays by Leonid Andreyev
3
He looked up from his newspaper in mild protest at such unreason.
Bucky O'Connor: A Tale of the Unfenced Border
4
And, at moments, this silence became dissonant with the clamour of unreason.
In Secret
5
You have not even invented a name to conceal your heroic unreason.
Can Such Things Be?
6
Lizzie is a woman, therefore 'hath reason or unreason for her act.'
Mary Cary: "Frequently Martha"
7
And yet modern history provides enormous evidence for the persistent power of unreason.
The Guardian
8
She was the daughter of unreason and the granddaughter of folly.
The Palace of Darkened Windows
9
The people pushed with the unreason of a crowd fleeing before a fire.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
10
You will live bitterly to regret the haste and the unreason of it.'
Robert Elsmere
11
Poor Mr. Horace spoke with the unreason of a superstitious bigot.
Balcony Stories
12
And it must here be noticed that this unreason was not all theological.
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
13
With sweet unreason she set aside authority when it clashed with her opinion.
The Mermaid: A Love Tale
14
He must temper his irritation at our undoubted fanaticism and unreason.
Jailed for Freedom
15
It was almost hysteria, to such a pitch of unreason was she wrought.
Demos
16
His unreason endeared him to me more than all his wisdom.
My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
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