Meanings
- superlativesuperlative form of sensible: most sensible
[…] the sense of his glowing body, in naked touch with mine […] deliver'd up every faculty of the soul to the sensiblest of joys […]
Fanny Hill
1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC1 more example
As to the ingein, as is always a pourin' out red hot coals at night, and black smoke in the day; the sensiblest thing it does, in my opinion, is, ven there's somethin' in the vay, and it sets up that 'ere frightful scream
1840-1841, Charles Dickens, Master Humphrey's Clock
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