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unfleshly

unfleshly adjective: not pertaining to or devoted to the flesh or the body; not physical.

Adjective

unfleshly (comparative more unfleshly, superlative most unfleshly)

  1. Not pertaining to or devoted to the flesh or the body; not physical.
    • This person lead an unfleshly life in the flesh, in a certain Monastery […]1683, uncredited translator, Ecclesiastical History by Evagrius Scholasticus, Book 4, Chapter 33, in The History of the Church from Our Lord’s Incarnation, to the Twelfth Year of the Emperour...
    • The Bard, not carnal-minded,—say the Curious,
      How come th’ unfleshly Folks, to be so furious?c. 1721, Aaron Hill, The Fatal Extravagance, London: T. Jauncy, Epilogue
    Synonyms:
    spiritual

Examples of unfleshly in a sentence

  • […] her tears fell on his arm the while, unheeded—except by those unfleshly eyes, with which they say the very air is thronged.1861, Charles Reade, “chapter 49”, in The Cloister and the Hearth; or, Maid, Wife, and Widow. A Matter-of-Fact Romance., New York, N.Y....
  • […] from its unfleshly character, as the women remember today, the spirituality of camp love became even more profound.1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Thomas P. Whitney, The Gulag Archipelago, New York: Harper & Row, Volume 2, Part 3, Chapter 8...

Synonyms of unfleshly

Forms of unfleshly

comparativemore unfleshly
superlativemost unfleshly

Origin of unfleshly

From un- + fleshly.

Words formed from unfleshly

Questions about unfleshly

What does unfleshly mean?
Unfleshly means not pertaining to or devoted to the flesh or the body; not physical.
How do you use unfleshly in a sentence?
[…] her tears fell on his arm the while, unheeded—except by those unfleshly eyes, with which they say the very air is thronged.
What part of speech is unfleshly?
Unfleshly is an adjective.

Words near unfleshly in the dictionary

  1. unflesh
  2. unfleshed
  3. unfleshes
  4. unfleshing
  5. unfleshliness
  6. unfleshly
  7. unfleshy
  8. unfletched
  9. unflex
  10. unflexed
  11. unflexes

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