Meaning

Of, pertaining to, or perceived by sense or the senses; sensory; sensual; sensible..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of, pertaining to, or perceived by sense or the senses; sensory; sensual; sensible.
2. In a sensely manner; sensorily; sensibly

Example Sentences

[…] a double I, a spiritual and a bodily. The spiritual I moves and hovers over the animal. The two are at war in a man ; and only by the mortification and death of every sensual or sensely desire can man attain to the ceasing of that connection […]

That is the universal tenet. But is God really hid? It is the blind or stupid eye that first pronounced this sensely word.

[…] February's wind, Scantly distinguished from the withered bent;— And since when first the perfect brain began To read a meaning in the shows of sense Beyond the sensely show, I looked on thee, A supple sapling, slim and straight and tall, […]

Know of new woman: she shall evolute, God-born, as Issa-Lily in me now: Her sensely raiment trail in Hymen's spice; Her bosom lift twain towers of paradise.

That garden where the sunlight's vibrant glow With radiant airs in raptured music blend Of harmony so heavenly fine and pure, So deeply distant from the gross demand Of sensely tones that thrall our dullard ear, And make the voice of heaven itself obscure, […]

[…] the sultry sea Of sensely instincts grieved it; […]

[…] without penitent approach to Him, and without free appropriation of His offered grace, and that it was, in its essence and working, connected with the sensely and natural.

I do what I do in sensely ways and not crazy ways.

Word Forms

• more sensely
• most sensely

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When Should You Use Sensely?

Use sensely when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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