unreason

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English unreson; equivalent to un- +‎ reason. === Noun === unreason (usually uncountable, plural unreasons) Lack of reason or rationality; unreasonableness; irrationality. c. 1566, John Knox, The Historie of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland, Book I, London: 1644,[1] 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. 1937, Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, “Shiraz, 18 February,”[4] Of all the foreigners I have met in this country, diplomats, business men, and archaeologists of many nationalities and varying terms of residence, Christopher is the only one who likes its inhabitants, sympathizes with their nationalist growing-pains, and consistently upholds their virtues, sometimes to the point of unreason. Nonsense; folly; absurdity. ==== Translations ==== === Verb === unreason (third-person singular simple present unreasons, present participle unreasoning, simple past and past participle unreasoned) (transitive, rare) To prove to be unreasonable; disprove by argument. (rare) To apply false logic or think without logic. (rare) To make unreasonable; to deprive of reason.