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Definition
impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses
- Imperceptibly I became conscious of a change in Biddy, however.Chapter 17 (7% in)
- By imperceptible degrees, as the tide ran out, we lost more and more of the nearer woods and hills, and dropped lower and lower between the muddy banks, but the tide was yet with us when we were off Gravesend.Chapter 54 (31% in)
- But, imperceptibly, though I held by them fast, Joe's hold upon them began to slacken; and whereas I wondered at this, at first, I soon began to understand that the cause of it was in me, and that the fault of it was all mine.Chapter 57 (77% in)
There are no more uses of "imperceptible" in Great Expectations.
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