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fensible

fensible adjective: defensible, well-fortified.

Adjective

fensible (comparative more fensible, superlative most fensible)

  1. (obsolete) Defensible, well-fortified.
    • the Castle wall, / That was so high, as foe might not it clime, / And all so faire, and fensible withall, […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of fensible

comparativemore fensible
superlativemost fensible

Origin of fensible

Reduced form of defensible.

Questions about fensible

What does fensible mean?
Fensible means defensible, well-fortified.
What part of speech is fensible?
Fensible is an adjective.

Words near fensible in the dictionary

  1. Fenris
  2. Fenrismance
  3. Fenrismancer
  4. Fenrismancers
  5. fens
  6. fensible
  7. Fenske
  8. Fenskes
  9. fenspiride
  10. fenster
  11. Fenstermacher

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