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sensitively, adv.|ˈsɛnsɪtɪvlɪ|
[f. sensitive a. + -ly2.]
In a sensitive manner.
†1. Feelingly, tenderly; with the emotions as distinguished from the intellect. Obs.
1644Hammond Pract. Catech. i. iii. (1646) 33 The sensitive faculty..may expresse its selfe more sensitively toward that inferiour object then toward God. 1673Baxter Let. in Acc. Sherlocke ii. 170 And thus God may be sensitively, or passionately loved, and must be.
2. With reference to feeling: Acutely, intensely.
1833T. Hook Parson's Dau. ii. x, He was sensitively alive to the force of ridicule. 1870Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. xliv. 1 To hear with the ears affects us more sensitively than to read with the eyes.
3. With delicate perception; also transf.
a1881Illingworth Serm. College Chapel 119 Never before..were the aspects and the processes of this natural world so curiously, sensitively, lovingly watched as now. 1881Huxley in Nature 11 Aug. 346/1 A vast aggregate of molecular mechanisms,..sensitively adjusting themselves to every change in the surrounding world.
4. With pa. pple.: So as to be sensitive.
1897Mary Albert Diamond Shoe Buckles 60 A delicate, sensitively-organized frame. |