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sensely

sensely adjective: of, pertaining to, or perceived by sense or the senses; sensory; sensual; sensible.

Adjective

sensely (comparative more sensely, superlative most sensely)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or perceived by sense or the senses; sensory; sensual; sensible.
    • That is the universal tenet. But is God really hid? It is the blind or stupid eye that first pronounced this sensely word.1797, Joseph Addison, Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments; Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volume 5
    • […] February's wind, Scantly distinguished from the withered bent;— And since when first the perfect brain began To read a meaning in the shows of sense Beyond the sensely show, I looked on thee, A supple sapling, slim and straight and tall, […]1868, Robert Buchanan, Gaston Phoebus. Edburga. Legendary and other poems - Page 305

Adverb

sensely (comparative more sensely, superlative most sensely)

  1. In a sensely manner; sensorily; sensibly
    • Voice is in soundlessness contained; will too reposed to strike an active note: the floating mote more sensely seems than does the dormant nerve — no force, no verve; the body heaveless, prone.1970, The Spring Anthology
    • A final resting place Designed for heavenly dwelling Genesis of Earthlings Experiences with designated Spirits blessed with flesh To sensely feel God's Best Before one says Humans were earth once One cannot carbonly Determine when humans Arrived and what dwelled […]2008, Elise Shedd, Elysium Dimension: God's Heavenly Realms

Examples of sensely in a sentence

  • The two are at war in a man ; and only by the mortification and death of every sensual or sensely desire can man attain to the ceasing of that connection […]1871, The London Quarterly and Holborn Review - Volume 35 - Page 476
  • Know of new woman: she shall evolute, God-born, as Issa-Lily in me now: Her sensely raiment trail in Hymen's spice; Her bosom lift twain towers of paradise.1896, Thomas Lake Harris, In Dawnrise: A Song of Songs:
  • […] the sultry sea Of sensely instincts grieved it; […]1903, Thomas Lake Harris, The Triumph of Life ... - Page 138:
  • […] without penitent approach to Him, and without free appropriation of His offered grace, and that it was, in its essence and working, connected with the sensely and natural.1905, Johann Peter Lange, Philip Schaff, A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Samuel - Page 99:

Forms of sensely

Adjective
comparativemore sensely
superlativemost sensely
Adverb
comparativemore sensely
superlativemost sensely

Origin of sensely

From sense + -ly.

Questions about sensely

What does sensely mean?
Sensely means of, pertaining to, or perceived by sense or the senses; sensory; sensual; sensible.
How do you use sensely in a sentence?
The two are at war in a man ; and only by the mortification and death of every sensual or sensely desire can man attain to the ceasing of that connection […]
What part of speech is sensely?
Sensely can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near sensely in the dictionary

  1. senselesse
  2. senselessly
  3. senselessness
  4. senselessnesses
  5. sensels
  6. sensely
  7. sensemaking
  8. Sensembra
  9. sensemilla
  10. sensemillas
  11. Sensenbrenner syndrome

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