inconscient

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She was not yet a woman, by a certain veil of fragility and inconscient shyness, but the child was gone.

From Making Money by Johnson, Owen

On Selden's part, no doubt, the wound inflicted was inconscient; he had never guessed her foolish secret; but Lily—Lily must have known!

From House of Mirth by Wharton, Edith

In minerals there are "constant tendencies" which are nothing but obscure wills; what we currently term weight, fluidity, impenetrability, electricity, chemical affinities, are nothing but natural wills or inconscient wills.

From Initiation into Philosophy by Faguet, Émile

I mean: that he's an inconscient instrument of goodness, as it were?

From Tales of Men and Ghosts by Wharton, Edith

There are few sights more ominous than that of a crowd thus observing itself, watching in inconscient suspense for the unknown crisis which its own passions have engendered.

From The Valley of Decision by Wharton, Edith