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Definition of Insensibly
1. Adverb. In a numb manner; without feeling. "I stared at him numbly"
Definition of Insensibly
1. adv. In a manner not to be felt or perceived; imperceptibly; gradually.
Definition of Insensibly
1. Adverb. In a insensible manner. ¹
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Definition of Insensibly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insensibly
Literary usage of Insensibly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (1883)
"He would put his wheel down and stand on a spoke, and as the steamer swung into
her (to me) utterly invisible marks—for we seemed to be • insensibly THEY ..."
2. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries by Charles Darwin (1846)
"So large were the fragments, that, being overtaken by a shower of rain, I readily
found shelter beneath one of them. quartz insensibly passes into the ..."
3. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"When they had thus insensibly formed one another, upon finishing of the war,
which concluded with an entire conquest of their common enemy, the colonels in ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... wit degenerated into sharp and angry invectives ; and, from the subordinate
powers of government, the invective» of the people insensibly rose to attack ..."
5. Letters to His Son: On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh (1901)
"... you cannot imagine how it will insensibly form your style, and give you an
habitual elegance; it would not take you up a quarter of an hour in a day. ..."
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