Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being fleshly; carnal passions and appetites.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being fleshly; carnal passions and appetites.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete Indulgence in concerns of the
flesh ;carnality , bodily appetites.
Etymologies
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Examples
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But do the crusty clots and conglomerations of reds, earths, and lead-whites that meet you at close range deliver any particular insight into fleshliness, let alone "life" itself?
The Way to All Flesh Bell, Julian 2008
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Even so, my sorry fleshliness was strangely apt for a day which reminds us of who we are before God.
Archive 2007-04-01 Mike L 2007
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Even so, my sorry fleshliness was strangely apt for a day which reminds us of who we are before God.
Holy Week Mike L 2007
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From the filthiness of low life, I dare say, but how about the elegant fleshliness of the previous school?
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Stella Schump opened wide her eyes that she transcended the milky fleshliness and the fact that, when she walked rapidly, her cheeks quivered in slight but gelatinous fashion.
Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928
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The skin flowed over her body with the cool fleshliness of a pink rose petal.
Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928
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The battle against fleshliness in all its forms is a battle which has to be fought and won in every
Religious Reality 1922
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For the brutal scrapes of eighteenth-century fiction the new romance, of Scott and Cooper, had substituted deeds of chivalrous doings; it had supplanted the blunt fleshliness of Fielding and Smollett by a chaste and courtly love.
Chapter 3. Romances of Adventure. Section 1. Materials and Men 1921
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Every hint that Witla is no vestal, that he indulges his unchristian fleshliness, that he burns in the manner of I Corinthians, VII, 9, is uncovered to the moral inquisition.
A Book of Prefaces 1918
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These two images in conjunction formed to his mind a ghastly group, and the more strenuously he fixed upon them such power of attention and thought as remained to him, the more he saw them increase according to a fantastic progressionthe one in grace, in charm, in beauty, in luster; the other in horror; till, at last, Emeralds appeared to him as a star, and the gibbet as a huge fleshliness arm.
I. Delirium. Book IX 1917
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