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形容詞

remindless (comparative more remindless, superlative most remindless)

1. Without thinking about; heedless.
   • 1852, Daniel B. Quinby, Monthly Literary Miscellany - Volumes 6-7, page 493:

     Philosophy on the contrary, remindless of beauty, goes back a hundred ages, to witness the grinding process, by which the solid granite has been reduced to powder by time, and mixed with the mould of vegetables, to cover up the rough, rugged, rocky framework of the earth, and form the landscape.

   • 1870, Jonas Clare: A Struggle for Life -, page 124:

     Sitting beside the hearth, with Fred and his mother planning what they would do, and Lily curled up in my lap, her pure, sweet face nestled close to mine, her sightless eyes remindless of the sorrow we had known, I came near sharing with her the joy I felt in being able to remove her to more favorable quarters.

   • 1881, William Morley Punshon, Biographical and Historical Lectures, page 38:

     The Pilgrim Fathers, men honoured for conscience' sake now as much as they were despised a century ago, were not long established in their Goshen home, when, remindless of their own sharp discipline, they drove out the Quakers into the Egypt of the wilderness beyond. The fact is, that persecution generates persecution, the lash and the fetters debase as well as agonise the races of the captive and the slave.

2. Not mindful; thoughtless or careless; mindless or forgetful.
   • 1796, Mrs. Bennett (Agnes Maria), Anna: Or, Memoirs of a Welch Heiress, page 50:

     I doubted not but my entreaties would have this effect on your ductile heart ; but to take advantage of your grateful sorrow for a departing friend, would be to engrave her on your memory, with the bitter accompanyment of remindless grief, without hope of change, but the awful one that will reunite us.

   • 1869, Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Missouri at the Regular Session of the Twenty-Fifth General Assembly, page 254:

     The relator sets forth in his petition, in substance, that, being legally qualified, he was a candidate at the last general election for the office of Circuit Judge in the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit, and as such received the highest number of qualified votes cast in said circuit for that office; that the respondent as Secretary of State refused and still refuses to count up the votes given for him, as prescribed by law, and that he is remindless, and therefore prays this court to issue a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel that officer to act.

   • 1951, The Georgia Review - Volume 5, page 232:

     Denouncing music and dismissing reason, Disdaining song as being out of season, Mindless, remindless, in defiance they dare Transplant earth's rhyming roots to rarer air.

   • 1981, Willie Pauline Young, ‎James E. Wooley, A Collection of Upper South Carolina Genealogical and Family Records:

     Your orator sheweth that the parties live out of this State and your orator is remindless save in this honorable Court.

   • 2015, Matthew Hayos, BOLSCOS, page 267:

     For those heavens and nirvanas were always here just to farm us into praise and worship, to bleed soul and source, cycling mind into remindless redundancy, intellect reject'd, left empty and still think it is free.