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SENSIBLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
With good sense or in a reasonable or intelligent manner
Example:
acted quite reasonably
Synonyms:
reasonably; sanely; sensibly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
sensible (showing reason or sound judgment)
Context examples:
The weight upon my spirit was sensibly lightened as I plunged yet deeper in the ravine of Arve.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
She had been almost fluttered for a few minutes, and still remained so sensibly animated as to put away her work, move Pug from her side, and give all her attention and all the rest of her sofa to her husband.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Many stared—many smiled; but no one looked more amused than Mr. Bennet himself, while his wife seriously commended Mr. Collins for having spoken so sensibly, and observed in a half-whisper to Lady Lucas, that he was a remarkably clever, good kind of young man.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
She had been repeatedly very earnest in trying to get Anne included in the visit to London, sensibly open to all the injustice and all the discredit of the selfish arrangements which shut her out, and on many lesser occasions had endeavoured to give Elizabeth the advantage of her own better judgement and experience; but always in vain: Elizabeth would go her own way; and never had she pursued it in more decided opposition to Lady Russell than in this selection of Mrs Clay; turning from the society of so deserving a sister, to bestow her affection and confidence on one who ought to have been nothing to her but the object of distant civility.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Miss Micawber, nursing the unconscious stranger of Mrs. Micawber's last letter to me, was sensibly affected.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I improved, however, sensibly in this science, but not sufficiently to follow up any kind of conversation, although I applied my whole mind to the endeavour, for I easily perceived that, although I eagerly longed to discover myself to the cottagers, I ought not to make the attempt until I had first become master of their language, which knowledge might enable me to make them overlook the deformity of my figure, for with this also the contrast perpetually presented to my eyes had made me acquainted.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Her uncle's kind expressions, however, and forbearing manner, were sensibly felt; and when she considered how much of the truth was unknown to him, she believed she had no right to wonder at the line of conduct he pursued.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The wind might by this time have lulled a little, though not more sensibly than if the cannonading I had dreamed of, had been diminished by the silencing of half-a-dozen guns out of hundreds.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
