Etymology

insense

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Today it means: To make to understand; to instruct. Full definition →

Old French ensenser
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromensenser“to enlighten, to bring to sense”
  2. English todayinsense

From Old French ensenser (“to enlighten, to bring to sense”), from en- + sens (“sense”).

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