Meanings
adjectivefensible (comparative more fensible, superlative most fensible)
comparative more fensible · superlative most fensible
- obsoleteDefensible, 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
Origin
Reduced form of defensible.
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