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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Un·con·scion·a·ble a.
 1. Not conscionable; exceeding the limits of any reasonable claim or expectation; not conforming to reason; unreasonable; inordinate; extravagant; as, an unconscionable person or demand; unconscionable size.
    Which use of reason, most reasonless and unconscionable, is the utmost that any tyrant ever pretended.   --Milton.
 His giantship is gone somewhat crestfallen,
 Stalking with less unconscionable strides.   --Milton.
 2. Not guided by, or conformed to, conscience; that cannot be done in good conscience; as, unconscionable profits.
    Ungenerous as well as unconscionable practices.   --South.
 -- Un*con*scion*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*con*scion*a*bly, adv.