Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not meditated; not prepared by previous thought; unpremeditated.
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Examples
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But I had also come to dislike marriage itself - that unremitting if unmeditated pressure of another personality on yours.
What's with Althouse? Ann Althouse 2009
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Suddenly, unmeditated, words burst from him: “Heu heu, quid volui misero mihi!”
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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Suddenly, unmeditated, words burst from him: “Heu heu, quid volui misero mihi!”
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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Babeile was sentenced five years imprisonment for his unmeditated stabbing of fellow pupil who had, together with his friends, provoked him.
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The finish, however, really the result of painstaking labor, such as Herrick had observed in his uncle's shop and as Jonson had enjoined, is perfectly unobtrusive; so apparently natural are the poems that they seem the irrepressible unmeditated outpourings of happy and idle moments.
A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher
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Forthwith, embarrassed anew by this unmeditated outburst, he hurried off, amid an astonished silence which was broken at last by the storekeeper.
Heart of the Blue Ridge Waldron Baily
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Public opinion formed in this way has the character of a judgment, rather than a mere unmeditated expression of emotion, as in the crowd.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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That a woman's business in life was to remain respectable and to secure a man, and consequent security, was her unmeditated faith -- till, in 1905, when Una was twenty-four years old, her father died.
The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918
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First of all, physical concomitants are rarely direct and unmeditated expressions of a psychical instant (e. g., clenching a fist in threatening).
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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The honest, unmeditated answer made her wince, but she went on, as if she had not heard it --
The Uttermost Farthing Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907
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