pensative

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English

Adjective

pensative (comparative more pensative, superlative most pensative)

(obsolete) pensive
- 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. , London: William Stansby, for Ed Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:
  being very pensative to hear the follies that Don Quixote spoke

References

“pensative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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