Fleshliness
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Indulgence in concerns of the flesh; bodily appetites. uncountable
"when strong passion, or weake fleshlinesse / Would from the right way seeke to draw him wide, / He would through temperance and stedfastnesse, / Teach him the weake to strengthen [...]."
Example
More examples"when strong passion, or weake fleshlinesse / Would from the right way seeke to draw him wide, / He would through temperance and stedfastnesse, / Teach him the weake to strengthen [...]."
Etymology
From fleshly + -ness.
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