Meaning of common-sense | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated form of common sense.

alt-of, dated, uncountable

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Examples

“In fact, such unfortunate persons have⟳ no resource but to become⟳ what we call⟳ Pedants; to ensconce themselves in a safe world of habitudes, of applicable or inapplicable traditions; not coveting, rather avoiding the general daylight of common-sense, as very extraneous to them and their procedure; by long persistence in which course they become⟳ Completed Pedants, hidebound, impenetrable, able to defy the hostile extraneous element; an alarming kind of men”

“This he unquestionably did not do, and yet we are asked to give⟳ a hearing to an American lawyer, who, nearly three centuries after Bacon’s death, chooses first to imagine⟳ that Bacon wrote the immortal plays, and then to assure us that, instead of placing the fact upon record⟳ as any man of common-sense would be sure to do, Bacon wrapt up his secret in a cryptogram, of which he did not even leave⟳ the key—a cryptogram distributed in a most mystical and bewildering way through the bad printing of the first folio, and which it was left for Mr Donnelly’s laborious and perverted ingenuity to discover⟳.”

“At breakfast, and while they were packing the few remaining articles, he showed his weariness from the night’s effort so unmistakeably that Tess was on the point⟳ of revealing all that had happened; but the reflection that it would anger him, grieve him, stultify him, to know⟳ that he had instinctively manifested a fondness for her of which his common-sense did not approve⟳; that his inclination had compromised his dignity when reason⟳ slept, again deterred her.”

“He mistrusted my youth, my common-sense, and my seamanship, and made a point⟳ of showing it in a hundred little ways.”

“It will scarcely be believed that this heavy burden is sought to be discharged in a way which would meet⟳ with very short shrift in any judicial tribunal, or, for the matter⟳ of that, in any tribunal presided over by sound⟳ common-sense and judgment.”

“Now I’m sure our Patty, being of proper common-sense and sound⟳ judgment, wouldn’t put⟳ the Elliott family to such inconvenience,—for moving is a large and fearsome proposition.”

“Perhaps it helped a man into Parliament, Parliament still being a confused retrogressive corner in the world where lawyers and suchlike sheltered themselves from the onslaughts of common-sense behind a fog of Latin and Greek and twaddle and tosh; […]”

“I am breathing the breath of a gourmand, I am breathing the breath of vocal common-sense.”

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