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单词 sensitively
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sensitivelyadv.

Brit. /ˈsɛnsᵻtᵻvli/, U.S. /ˈsɛnsədᵻvli/
Forms: see sensitive adj. and n. and -ly suffix2.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sensitive adj., -ly suffix2.
Etymology: < sensitive adj. + -ly suffix2.
1. With or through the senses or emotions (usually as distinguished from the intellect). Formerly also: †feelingly, tenderly (obsolete).In later use chiefly in philosophical contexts.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > [adverb] > emotionally or with emotion
feelinglya1586
sensitively1600
resentingly1611
emotionally1849
the mind > emotion > love > tenderness > [adverb]
neshlyeOE
neshc1175
tenderlya1400
sensitively1600
cherishingly1611
tenderfully1640
1600 H. Jacob Def. Treat. Sufferings & Victorie Christ 52 His soule..discerning sensitively the bodily paine & smart.
1645 H. Hammond Pract. Catech. i. iii. 79 The sensitive faculty..may expresse it's selfe more sensitively toward that inferiour object, then toward God.
1673 R. Baxter Let. 24 Dec. in Acct. Dissent from Dr. Sherlocke ii, in Answer Mr. Dodwell & Dr. Sherlocke (1682) 170 And thus God may be sensitively, or passionately loved, and must be.
1773 R. Jones Io-Triads 30 Real existence, which we have intuitively of ourselves, demonstratively of God, and sensitively of other things.
1798 tr. I. Kant Ess. & Treat. I. 128 Reason only prescribes the ought or shall to the sensitively affected rational being.
1814 J. Clowes tr. E. Swedenborg Apocalypse Explained V. xii. 389 This life is perceived sensitively, but not the interior life.
1946 Theol. Stud. 7 368 It is the sensitively integrated object that is reality for a dog.
1993 A. Berleant in S. Kemal & I. Gaskell Landscape, Nat. Beauty & Arts (1995) xi. 237 Kant locates their sublimity sensitively, not in the intellectual comprehension of their processes and extent.
2. With reference to feeling: acutely, intensely. In later use chiefly in collocation with jealous. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > intense emotion > [adverb]
deepa1000
inwardlya1000
inlyOE
mortallyc1390
deeplya1400
keena1400
keenlya1400
from the bottom of one's hearta1413
from (also fro) one's heart1477
profoundly1489
from the spleen?a1505
sensibly1577
with sense1578
smartlyc1580
soakingly1593
dearly1604
intimately1637
viscerally1637
exquisitely1678
sensitively1793
exaltedly1855
intensely1860
1793 J. Beresford in W. Roberts Looker-on No. 82. 653 The trembling heart of Frederick, sensitively alive to all that concerned his love, was wrought into a phrenzy of apprehension.
1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter II. x. 204 He was sensitively alive to the force of ridicule.
1871 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David II. Ps. xliv. 1 To hear with the ears affects us more sensitively than to read with the eyes.
1921 C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson Great Pearl Secret viii. 74 Sensitively jealous, the maid resented being sent out of the room.
1992 T. G. H. James Howard Carter: Path to Tutankhamun x. 241 The native Egyptian Press..was sensitively jealous of the Egyptian nature of the find.
3. With past participle: so as to be sensitive. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > ability to be perceived by senses > [adverb]
sensiblya1398
sensually?a1425
palpablya1456
feelably?a1475
there1535
discernably1561
sensible1590
discernibly1645
distinguishably1704
perceptivelya1774
sensitively1797
1797 M. Robinson Walsingham I. vi. 115 Why is the human breast so sensitively organized, only to cherish sorrow, and to shrink with torture from the touch of persecution?
1857 Dublin Univ. Mag. Nov. 598/2 Bunyan's Pilgrim, Gulliver's Travels, Ambrose on Angels..left their complexion on his sensitively constructed mind.
1897 M. Albert Diamond Shoe Buckles 60 A delicate, sensitively-organized frame.
1905 Appleton's Booklovers Mag. July 87/1 That apparatus, strangely enough, responded least when it was most sensitively constructed.
4. In a sensitive manner; with sensitivity; delicately, perceptively.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > sensitiveness or tenderness > [adverb]
quicklyOE
tenderlya1400
tender1424
feelingly1706
susceptibly1785
sensitively1824
tinderly1825
soulfully1841
uncynically1895
1824 Museum of Foreign Lit. Sept. 258 No man alive knows the turns of the wind half so sensitively.
1881 J. R. Illingworth Serm. Coll. Chapel 119 Never before..were the aspects and the processes of this natural world so curiously, sensitively, lovingly watched as now.
1935 A. M. Lindbergh Let. 21 Sept. in Locked Rooms & Open Doors (1974) 313 Perhaps that is what I was made for: by living sensitively and awarely to be able at times to help other people.
1952 Sewanee Rev. 60 68 Seldom has the quality of childhood been more sensitively expressed.
2001 High Country News 12 Mar. 13 He wrote sensitively of the West and its problems.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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