inconscient

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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

He turned heroically, resolved to lay down the law, and his stern eyes encountered hers, so troubling and so untroubled, tempting and yielding—glorified and inconscient.

From The Salamander by Johnson, Owen

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

What I'd never had a taste of was the simple inconscient sort that one breathes in like the air….

From Crucial Instances by Wharton, Edith

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

From Tales of Men and Ghosts by Wharton, Edith