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Definition of Insensately
1. Adverb. In an insensate manner.
Definition of Insensately
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insensately
Literary usage of Insensately
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1898)
"It was of an exceedingly scurrilous character, representing the chevalier's
conduct as insensately profligate and his alleged cures ..."
2. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1897)
"Her bitter marriage, joyless in all its chapters, indefensible where the man was
right as well as where insensately wrong, had been imprisonment. ..."
3. Ivory, Apes and Peacocks: Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman, Jules Laforgue by James Huneker (1915)
"For Nostromo nothing is lost save honour; he goes to his death loving insensately;
for Razumov his honour endures till the pressure put upon it by his love ..."
4. Richard to Minna Wagner: Letters to His First Wife by Richard Wagner (1909)
"However insensately and passionately she behaved in the most delicate situations,
I cannot after all be really wroth with her. Everyone suffers in his own ..."
5. Putnam's Magazine (1908)
"The youth began beating the wall insensately with his stick. "Devils! Dogs!"
he panted through his teeth. "Jackals of the desert that defile the palaces of ..."
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