good sense
[Cf. the equivalent F. bon sens.]
Native soundness of judgement, esp. in the ordinary affairs of life. (Cf. common Sense 2 b.)
| 1688 Ld. Halifax Adv. Dau. (ed. 2) 48 Naturally good Sence hath a mixture of surly in't. 1739 W. Melmoth Fitzosb. Lett. (1763) 240 Good-sense is something very distinct from knowledge. 1854 J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) I. xxiv. 377 ‘This plan’, says Thiers, ‘was not, on his part, the inspiration of ambition, but rather of great good sense’. 1883 F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius 239 Wondering how it was that a stranger should so soon have assumed the position of an adviser, and with an energy and good sense, too, which [etc.]. |