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fleshliness - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun obsolete Indulgence in concerns of the flesh ; carnality , bodily appetites.
Etymologies
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From fleshly + -ness .
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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
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
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
From the filthiness of low life, I dare say, but how about the elegant fleshliness of the previous school?
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various
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
The skin flowed over her body with the cool fleshliness of a pink rose petal.
Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928
The battle against fleshliness in all its forms is a battle which has to be fought and won in every
Religious Reality 1922
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
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
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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