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sensibly

/ˈsɛnsəbli/ adverb C2
  1. In a sensible manner; in a way that shows good sense.
  2. In a way that can be sensed or noticed; perceptibly. (dated, formal)
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Collins for having spoken so sensibly, and observed, in a half-whisper to Lady Lucas, that he was a remarkably clever, good kind of young man.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 116 · B2
The happiness which this reply produced was such as he had probably never felt before; and he expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 344 · B2

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