Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unsensualize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-sen-su-al-ize
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To elevate from the domain of the senses; to purify.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"March 25, 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Watchman Hence the soft couch, and many-colour'd robe, The timbrel and arch'd dome and costly feast, With all th' inventive arts that nurse the soul To forms of beauty; and by sensual wants Unsensualize the mind, which in the Means Learns to forget the grossness of the End, Best pleasur'd with its own activity."

Etymology

From un- + sensualize.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

unsensualizes (present, singular) unsensualizing (participle, present) unsensualized (participle, past) unsensualized (past)

Questions

What does unsensualize mean?: To elevate from the domain of the senses; to purify.
Where does unsensualize come from?: From un- + sensualize.

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