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palpably

palpably adverb: in a palpable manner; tangibly.

Adverb

palpably (comparative more palpably, superlative most palpably)

  1. In a palpable manner; tangibly.
    • […] Exiſtence is a perfection: Firſt it is palpably plain, according to that ſenſible Aphoriſm of Solomon, Better is a living Dog then a dead Lyon.1655, Henry More, “That Existence is a Term of Perfection, and therefore Necessarily Included in the Idea of a Being Absolutely Perfect, or of God”, in An Antidote against Atheism, or, An Appeal to...
    • Mrs. Brown withdrawn, Phoebe came presently to bed to me, and what with the answers she drew from me, what with her own method of palpably satisfying herself1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC

Examples of palpably in a sentence

  • God was palpably present in the country, and the devil had gone with the world to town.1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXII, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co....
  • In the case of senior police or government officials who were palpably guilty of serving Nazi interests via the puppet regimes that employed them, this defence was at best disingenuous.2005, Tony Judt, “Retribution”, in Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010, →ISBN:

Forms of palpably

comparativemore palpably
superlativemost palpably

Origin of palpably

From palpable + -ly.

Questions about palpably

What does palpably mean?
Palpably means in a palpable manner; tangibly.
How do you use palpably in a sentence?
God was palpably present in the country, and the devil had gone with the world to town.
What part of speech is palpably?
Palpably is an adverb.

Words near palpably in the dictionary

  1. palp
  2. palpabilities
  3. palpability
  4. palpable
  5. palpableness
  6. palpably
  7. palpacle
  8. palpacles
  9. palpal
  10. Palpalan
  11. palpatable

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