fensible
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Reduced form of defensible.
Adjective
[edit]fensible (comparative more fensible, superlative most fensible)
- (obsolete) Defensible, well-fortified.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- the Castle wall, / That was so high, as foe might not it clime, / And all so faire, and fensible withall, […]