单词 | sensitively |
释义 | sensitivelyadv. 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. 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). < adv.1600 |
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