† Unsensibly

adv. Obs. [UN-¹ 11, 5 b.]

  1.  = INSENSIBLY adv. 1.

1627.  Abp. Abbot, in Rushw., Hist. Coll. (1659), I. 444. So being unsensibly hatched, it came flying into the World.

1679.  C. Nesse, Antichrist, 213. It stole into the world … unsensibly, and at unawares.

  b.  Unknowingly, unconsciously.

1658.  J. Jones, Ovid’s Ibis, 127. Though unsensibly she shed bitter tears for her transgression.

  2.  = INSENSIBLY adv. 2.

1565.  Jewel, Reply Harding, 217. That after so many wordes … ye shoulde be founde so nakedly, and so vnsensibly to deceiue the people.

1596.  Spenser, State Irel., Wks. (Globe), 622/2. The later [statute] … is soe unsensibly contryved that it scarce carryeth any reason in it.