'I am little subject to such violent emotions.  My sensitiveness [i]is naturally not keen, and I harden and deaden it every day intentionally [ii].'

- Montaigne

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[i] Apprehension.  Montaigne uses this word frequently in the sense of “the action of feeling anything emotionally”- an obsolete sense of the similar English word.

[ii] Je l’ encrouste et espessis … par discours.

- George B. Ives(Notes)