† Unsensibleness

Obs. [UN-¹ 12 and 5 b. Cf. prec.] Insensibility.

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a. 1568. Coverdale, Bk. Death, xxxvii. (1579), 171. That is a very blockish vnsensiblenesse of wilde madde barbarous people.

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1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. xxviii. 5. Through stubbornnesse [they] harden themselues vntoo vnsensiblenesse.

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1603. Florio, Montaigne, II. xii. I commend not that vnsensiblenesse, which is neither possible nor to be desired.

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1676. I. Mather, K. Philip’s War (1862), 94. Our great unsensibleness of the Displeasure of the Lord, in suffering these abominations to be perpetuated.

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1730. Bailey (fol.), Indolency, unsensibleness of Pain or Grief.

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