"unreflecting" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1671, Samuel Parker, chapter 7, in A Defence and Continuation of the Ecclesiastical Politie, London: J. Martyn, page 569:",
          "text": "Now what Discourse can be more suited to the Principles of these young Cubs of the Leviathan, than not to punish credulous and unreflecting People for being cheated and abused?",
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          "ref": "1770, Thomas Chatterton, The Auction, London: George Kearsly, page 22:",
          "text": "When culprit reason truant plays,\nAnd wanders forth in fancy’s maze,\nThy random shafts may please a-while,\nAnd raise the unreflecting smile,\nBut soon as absent sense returns,\nOur cheek with indignation burns,",
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          "ref": "1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 32, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 326:",
          "text": "If there are people so unreflecting or so cruel, as to make a jest of me, what is left for me to do but to make a jest of myself, them, and every thing?",
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          "ref": "1899, Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness”, in Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, published 1902, page 142:",
          "text": "[…] there he was gallantly, thoughtlessly alive, to all appearance indestructible solely by the virtue of his few years and of his unreflecting audacity.",
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          "ref": "1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 3, in Brideshead Revisited […], 3rd edition, London: Chapman & Hall, →OCLC, book 1 (Et in Arcadia Ego), page 56:",
          "text": "How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation, Dresden figures of pastoral gaiety!",
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        "Not giving reflection or thought to one's actions, words, conclusions, etc.; (of an action, statement, conclusion, etc.) done without reflection or thought. (of a person)"
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          "ref": "1792, William Gilpin, “On Picturesque Beauty”, in Three Essays, London: R. Blamire, page 24:",
          "text": "[…] a mirror may have picturesque beauty; but it is only from it's reflections. In an unreflecting state, it is insipid.",
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          "ref": "1913, James Elroy Flecker, “A Ship, an Isle, a Sickle Moon”, in J. C. Squire, editor, The Collected Poems of James Elroy Flecker, New York: Doubleday, Page, published 1916, page 175:",
          "text": "A star-ship—as the mirrors told—\nPut forth its great and lonely light\nTo the unreflecting Ocean, Night.",
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          "ref": "1943, Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear, London: Heinemann, published 1960, Book 1, Chapter 6, p. 99:",
          "text": "The steel hat on the coffin lay blackened and unreflecting under the winter sun […]",
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        "That does not reflect light or sound."
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