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Definition of Sensibilities
1. sensibility [n] - See also: sensibility
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sensibilities
Literary usage of Sensibilities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1848)
"Division of the sensibilities into natural or ... Our examination of the
sensibilities will accordingly proceed upon the basis of this division. ..."
2. Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1852)
"Division of the sensibilities into natural or ... Our examination of the
sensibilities will accordingly proceed upon the basis of this division. ..."
3. Elements of Mental Philosophy by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1847)
"Division of the sensibilities into natural or ... Qur examination of the
sensibilities will accordingly proceed upon the basis of this division. ..."
4. Elements of Mental Philosophy by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1845)
"Division of the sensibilities into natural or ... Our examination of the
sensibilities will accordingly proceed upon the basis of this division. ..."
5. Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1843)
"Division of the sensibilities into natural or ... Our examination of the
sensibilities will accordingly proceed upon the basis of this division. ..."
6. Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1854)
"Division of the sensibilities into natural or ... Our examination of the
sensibilities will accordingly proceed upon the basis of this division. ..."
7. Elements of Mental Philosophy by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1847)
"Classification of the moral sensibilities. THE remarks of the preceding chapter,
it will be noticed, have had a relation exclusively to the general subject. ..."
8. The Philosophical Basis of Theism: An Examination of the Personality of Man by Samuel Harris (1883)
"The motives and emotions themselves are called sensibilities or Feelings. ...
The same distinction pertains to all the sensibilities. II. ..."