Meanings
adjectivepolysensuous (comparative more polysensuous, superlative most polysensuous)
comparative more polysensuous · superlative most polysensuous
- archaicHaving many senses or meanings.
After explaining that the 'sense of the work is not simple, but it may be called polysensuous, that is, of many senses,' and after showing that there is first a literal sense, and secondly an allegorical sense […]
1874, Dante Alighieri, Henry Bernard Cotterill, Dante: Selections from the Inferno, page lxxiii
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