fensible

English

Etymology

Reduced form of defensible.

Adjective

fensible (comparative more fensible, superlative most fensible)

1. (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, […]

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