sensely

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adjective

Of, pertaining to, or perceived by sense or the senses; sensory; sensual; sensible.

Scrabble 10

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adjectivesensely (comparative more sensely, superlative most sensely)

comparative more sensely · superlative most sensely

  1. Of, pertaining to, or perceived by sense or the senses; sensory; sensual; sensible.

    […] the sultry sea Of sensely instincts grieved it; […]

    1903, Thomas Lake Harris, The Triumph of Life ... - Page 138
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    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

    […] a double I, a spiritual and a bodily. The spiritual I moves and hovers over the animal. 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

    That garden where the sunlight's vibrant glow With radiant airs in raptured music blend Of harmony so heavenly fine and pure, So deeply distant from the gross demand Of sensely tones that thrall our dullard ear, And make the voice of heaven itself obscure, […]

    1900, Kate A. Benton, Geber - Page 283
adverbsensely (comparative more sensely, superlative most sensely)

comparative more sensely · superlative most sensely

  1. In a sensely manner; sensorily; sensibly

    My dormantly resting multitasking skills had never been so sensely bombarded, as absolute chaos kissed the lips of mayhem that thwarted our every turn.

    2011, Eddie Horton, Just Compass - Page 16
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    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

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