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Synonyms for sane
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : seyn |
Phonetic Transcription : seɪn |
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Définition of sane
Origin :- 1721, back-formation from sanity or else from Latin sanus "sound, healthy," in figurative or transferred use, "of sound mind, rational, sane," also, of style, "correct;" of uncertain origin. Used earlier, of the body, with the sense of "healthy" (1620s). Related: Sanely.
- adj mentally sound; reasonable
- "They're the only sane folks I've met among your friends," he had told his grandson.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- In his sane moments he did not care a fig for anybody's birthday.
- Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
- In company with my friend I set off for an al-fresco breakfast on the banks of the Sane.
- Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- A sane and sensible wave seemed to be sweeping the whole country.
- Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
- Lunatics, she knew, could be quelled by the calm gaze of the sane human eye.
- Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
- And the fancy was this: Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?
- Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
- The bigot is not he who knows he is right; every sane man knows he is right.
- Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
- They kept him sane, by giving him something tangible, something inferior, to hate.
- Extract from : « Happy Ending » by Fredric Brown
- I who thought myself so strong, who was so proud of my sane reason!
- Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola
- You and I and the doctors and attendants are the only sane people in the place.
- Extract from : « The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 (of 2) » by Harry Furniss
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