Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Lack of sense; folly.
  • To deprive of sense or consciousness; render unconscious.

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  • noun Lack or absence of sense; senselessness; nonsense.

Etymologies

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From un- (“absence of, lack of”) +‎ sense.

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Examples

  • To unsense desire or sublimate rage is to drive the affect from awareness, render it imperceptible and thus uncontrolled, no longer an affect at all but rather the sort of unarticulated and inarticulable compulsion that drives Chimp A to reach for the bowl with more.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • To unsense desire or sublimate rage is to drive the affect from awareness, render it imperceptible and thus uncontrolled, no longer an affect at all but rather the sort of unarticulated and inarticulable compulsion that drives Chimp A to reach for the bowl with more.

    The Art of Life Hal Duncan 2007

  • Shelton, who has a civil word for nobody, and a hard blow for anybody — hard! one blow, given with the proper play of his athletic arm, will unsense a giant.

    Lavengro 2004

  • One blow given with the proper play of his athletic arm will unsense a giant.

    Through the Magic Door Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1907

  • I've fared in my time; fisherman I've been since I seed the unsense of sea-dangerin '.

    Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • One blow given with the proper play of his athletic arm will unsense

    Through the Magic Door Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Crosses him, what a contrast! grim, savage Shelton, who has a civil word for nobody, and a hard blow for anybody -- hard! one blow, given with the proper play of his athletic arm, will unsense a giant.

    George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891

  • Shelton, who has a civil word for nobody, and a hard blow for anybody -- hard! one blow, given with the proper play of his athletic arm, will unsense a giant.

    Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

  • Shelton, who has a civil word for nobody, and a hard blow for anybody -- hard! one blow, given with the proper play of his athletic arm, will unsense a giant.

    Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

  • Shelton, who has a civil word for nobody, and a hard blow for anybody -- hard! one blow, given with the proper play of his athletic arm, will unsense a giant.

    The Pocket George Borrow George Henry Borrow 1842

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