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Definition
capable of being noticed — typically because it is different enough or large enough
- Mr. Jackson had helped himself to a slice of the tepid filet which the mournful butler had handed him with a look as sceptical as his own, and had rejected the mushroom sauce after a scarcely perceptible sniff.Chapter 5 (64% in)
- But none of these young men had much hope of really advancing in his profession, or any earnest desire to do so; and over many of them the green mould of the perfunctory was already perceptibly spreading.Chapter 14 (69% in)
- After a pause she said, with a just perceptible chill in her voice: "May asked you to take care of me."Chapter 15 (28% in)
- The young man, after a just perceptible hesitation, replied, with profuse thanks, and in a tone that did not carry complete conviction, that he was already engaged; but when they had reached the comparative reassurance of the street he asked if he might call that afternoon.Chapter 25 (26% in)
There are no more uses of "perceptible" in The Age of Innocence.
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