Unreason
[,ʌn'ri:zn]
Definition
(n.) Want of reason; unreasonableness; absurdity.
(v. t.) To undo, disprove, or refute by reasoning.
Typed by Beryl
Examples
- Indeed it would be the height of unreason to expect him to be sitting there without that head. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- That's the crowning point of unreason in the business! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Perhaps it secretly flattered itself that it would always be able to go on in spite of the thread of violence and unreason in its political direction. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Better to decay in absolute delirium, than to be the victim of the methodical unreason of ill-bestowed love. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Checked by Lionel