unreason

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Lack of reason or rationality; unreasonableness; irrationality. uncountable,usually
    — c. 1566, John Knox, The Historie of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland, Book I, London: 1644, Another day the same Frier made another Sermon of the Abbot of Unreason, unto whom, and whose Laws, he compareth Prelats of that age; for they were subject to no Laws, no more than was the Abbot of Unreason.
  2. Nonsense; folly; absurdity. uncountable,usually
动词 v.
  1. To prove to be unreasonable; disprove by argument. rare,transitive
    — The reason of the unreasonable usage my reason has met with, so unreasons my reason, that I have reason to complain of your beauty :" and how did he enjoy the following flower of composition ! "
  2. To apply false logic or think without logic. rare
    — After some trouble I have got the Programme, and now send it on to you ; I beg you to transcribe the first ten pages, in which he reasons, or rather unreasons, about homeopathy, and then send the Programme back to me, as I do not know how to procure another copy.
  3. To make unreasonable; to deprive of reason. rare
    — Unbelief unreasons a man: so the Apostle joyns them, when he prays to be delivered from unreasonable men; for all men have not faith.

词形变化

unreasons plural unreasons present,singular,third-person unreasoning participle,present unreasoned participle,past unreasoned past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English unreson; equivalent to un- + reason.
词源 2
From Middle English unreson; equivalent to un- + reason.
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